From Lewis H. Lapham in Harper’s Magazine, May, 2009
Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say;
Never to have drawn the breath of life,
never to have looked into the eye of day;
The second best’s a gay good night and quickly turn away.
—W. B. Yeats
Jean Baudrillard, writing in his last book, Cool Memories V, after having been diagnosed with the cancer that killed him, “Death orders matters well, since the very fact of your absence makes the world distinctly less worthy of being lived in.”
– Simon Critchley, The Book of Dead Philosophers
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