I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.
Glen DuncanWords betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.
Glen DuncanNo artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.
Glen DuncanThereโs a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but itโs really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we canโt ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then itโs quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementiaโs the sane realisation you just canโt be doing with all that anymore.
Glen Duncan