Customers at a marathon do not have to be prepared for their excitement. When anything happens they get excited all at once. In that respect a marathon dance is like a bullfight.
Let’s go sit and hate a bunch of people.
It’s peculiar to me,′ she said, ’that everybody pays so much attention to living and so little to dying. Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying to prolong life instead of finding pleasant ways to end it? There must be a hell of a lot of people in the world like me – who want to die but haven’t got the guts.
This was one day Gloria had no reason to be morbid, but she was more morbid than ever.