Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don…

Don DeLillo
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Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze with mystery and spiral light. Let us both live forever, in sickness and health, feebleminded, doddering, toothless, liver-spotted, dim-sighted, hallucinating. Who decides these things? What is out there? Who are you? ✨ Don DeLillo (2011). White Noise, p.119, Pan Macmillan
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