“Trap. Horrible trap. At one’s birth it is sprung. Some last day must arrive. When you will need to get out of this body. Bad enough. Then we bring a baby here. The terms of the trap are compounded. That baby also must depart. All pleasures should be tainted by that knowledge. But hopeful dear us, we forget.” - George Saunders, “Lincoln in the Bardo”
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Yes. To quote the character 22 in the movie, Soul, “is all this living worth dying for?”
I need to put more George Saunders in my life.