It is not confused. We are.
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.
Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.
Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.
Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.