The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead: A MemoirKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 5 de febr. 2008 - 256 pàgines NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers, a book that expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality. |
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... human beings as bare , forked animals , the beauty and pathos in my body and his body and everybody else's body as well . Accept death , I always seem to be saying . Accept life , is his entirely understandable reply . Why am I half in ...
... Human beings have existed for 250,000 years ; during that time , 90 billion individuals have lived and died . You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet , and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's . The ...
... human body is defined as a wound with nine openings . A newborn baby is , objectively , no beauty . The fat pads that will fill out the cheeks are missing . The jaws are unsupported by teeth . Hair , if there is any , is often so fine ...
... human infant but was crucial . in the last prehuman phase of evolution when the infant had to cling to its mother's hair . My father reminds me that according to Midrash — the ever - evolving commentary upon the Hebrew scriptures— when ...
... humans age at the rate they do : aging is genetically controlled ( maladapted indi- viduals die out and well - adapted ones persevere ) ; the rate of aging within each species has developed for the good of each species ; an entropy ...
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19 | |
Motherhood | 27 |
Hoop Dream ii | 34 |
Rattlesnake Lake | 43 |
3 | 48 |
Boys vs Girls ii | 49 |
Superheroes | 59 |
27 | 112 |
Notes on the Local Swimming Hole | 121 |
Hoop Dream viii | 135 |
Decline and Fall iii | 139 |
The Thing About Life Is That One | 151 |
Boys vs Girls iv | 160 |
29 | 163 |
Death Is the Mother of Beauty | 173 |
Hoop Dreams iv and | 66 |
Ye Olde MindBody Problem | 78 |
Decline and Fall ii | 87 |
14 | 91 |
Bloodline to Star Power ii | 98 |
19 | 103 |
Sex Changes Everything | 104 |
The Trouble with Being Food | 111 |
How to Live Forever i | 181 |
114 | 184 |
How to Live Forever ii | 189 |
Bloodline to Star Power iii | 200 |
The Story Told One Last Time | 211 |
Notes for Eulogy for My Father | 218 |
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 227 |
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead David Shields Previsualització no disponible - 2009 |
The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead David Shields Previsualització no disponible - 2010 |