One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.
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 DuncanOnce you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.
Glen DuncanTime, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. The question What was there before creation? is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.
Glen DuncanYes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasnโt it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? โPresume not the ways of God to scan,โ youโve been told in umpteen variations, โthe proper study of Mankind is Man.โ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (Thatโs generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)
Glen Duncan