Monday, May 8, 2023
An Aged: Life Burden Broken Comments
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the sweet release of total forgetfulness
the allure of opium eaters lost in no memories
lost in forgetfulness; without the curse
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8/18/2025 4:50:11 AM # 1.0.0
This reminds me of the final pages of THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH, in which the main character (a strong-willed man) begins to lose his faculties, and only then does he face the coming of death with acceptance.
Smert Ivana Ilyicha by Leo Tolstoy published in 1886. I doubt the local small town library has a copy but I will investigate. I considered myself lucky there were novels by Hermann Hesse and Kahlil Gibran there when I was a teenager.