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senescence

Blood Meridian,

“Old age is a time of casting away, which is bad enough, but it’s also a time of escalating indignities.”

James Dickey to start with. You know his poems, and there’s a famous novel, Deliverance—” “I saw the movie. Men going down a river in canoes.” “Yes, but don’t read that one. Read To the White Sea. Lesser known, but I think better. For your purposes. I want you to read at least one Cormac McCarthy novel, All the Pretty Horses or Suttree. Will you do

leitmotif,

jejune,

But love isn’t always support. Sometimes love is taking the supports away.

fulminations—which

Did you know the human liver contains all nine essential amino acids?