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Nothing to be Frightened of
Some further comments on death (and writing) by Julian Barnes -
'Whatever the writer's aesthetic - from subjective and autobiographical to objective and author-concealing - the self must be strengthened and defined in order to produce the work. So you could say that by writing this sentence I am making it just a little harder for myself to die.' p ( Read more... ) -
Nothing to be frightened of
Recounted in this marvellous book is this observation by Flaubert...
'Once you have kissed a corpse on the forehead there always remains something on your lips, a distant bitterness, an aftertaste of the void that nothing will efface.' p 96
So incredibly true.
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Nothing to be Frightened of
This book by my favourite author, Julian Barnes, does not disappoint. 'Nothing to be Frightened of' is a series of seemingly unstructured but I suspect highly so, musings/essays about God, death and the afterlife. It voyages into the autobiographical but with the ubiquitous forays into philosophy and french writers. (His area of special interest ( Read more... )