The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead: A MemoirNATIONAL 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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... its naked corporeality , human beings as bare , forked animals , the beauty and pathos in my body and his body and ... it's a full - time job : death . You really have to wrench your head around to look in the other direction , because ...
... its mother's womb and wait to be fed . Its placenta aggressively sprouts blood vessels that invade its mother's tissues to extract nutrients . A mother and her unborn child engage in an unconscious struggle over the nutri- ents she will ...
... placed in or near their mouth . Their eyes wan- der and cross . Their body temperature is erratic , and their breathing is often irregular . At 1 month , a baby can wobble its head Our Birth Is Nothing but Our Death Begun 5.
... its back . On its stomach , it can lift its head about 45 degrees . At 3 months , a baby's neck muscles are strong enough to support its head for a second or two . Babies are born with brains 25 percent of adult size , because the ...
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Contents
9 | |
Paradise Soon Lost | 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 |