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After the cross has been carried,
after the weight is laid down,
after the body is buried,
down where the darkness surrounds,
after the end of the violence,
after the sky has gone dark,
now there is nothing but silence,
broken by the beat of our heart.
He’s gone. (×4)
After the last words are spoken,
we lay him down in the grave.
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I aimed for clarity, but I trust the reader to adapt to some slightly alien terms or phrases, especially where the Homeric idioms are fundamental to the poem’s understanding of life or death. For instance, I tried to echo the Homeric understanding of the dead person as still a person, rather than inserting terms such as “the body of,” when the Gree
... See moreHomer • The Iliad
more importantly that it will go on, that love will survive even though we will not. And between now and then, we are here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Je ne pense pas qu'il ait eu le temps, tellement sa chute fut brève, de mettre sur son visage le masque de combat dont m'ont parlé tous ceux qui ont volé avec lui dans les instants dangereux. Ce que je crois de toute mon âme c'est que, se voyant mourir comme il l'avait voulu, après avoir vécu comme il l'avait fait, libre de toute compromission, pur
... See moreJoseph Kessel • Mermoz (French Edition)
“I wish I had the boy” the old man said aloud. “I’m being towed by a fish and I’m the towing bitt. I could make the line fast. But then he could break it. I must hold him all I can and give him line when he must have it. Thank God he is travelling and not going down.”
ERNEST HEMINGWAY • THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA: LIBRARY ROAD CLASSIC
As Gil Roberts said in his farewell letter to friends shortly before he died of cancer in 2000, “Nobody gets out of life alive.”