"Death is what instructs
us most of all, and then only when it is present. When it is absent it is totally
forgotten. Those who can live with death can live in the truth, only this is almost
unendurable. It is not the drama of death that teaches—when you are there facing it
there is no drama. That’s why it’s so hard to write tragedy. Death is the great
destroyer of all images and all stories, and human beings will do anything rather than
envisage it. Their last resource is to rely on suffering, to try to cheat death by
suffering instead. And suffering we know breeds images, it breeds the most beautiful
images of all."
--Henry and Cato |
