The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead

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作者: David Shields

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Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being.Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers--from Lucretius to Woody Allen--Shields expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality.The Thing About Life provokes us to contemplate the brevity and radiance of our own sojourn on earth and challenges us to rearrange our thinking in crucial and unexpected ways.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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​ The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead
Cover Page
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
PROLOGUE
Infancy and Childhood
Our Birth Is Nothing but Our Death Begun
Decline and Fall (i)
Boys vs. Girls (i)
Origins
Paradise, Soon Lost
News Flash
Motherhood
The Actuarial Prime of Life, or Why Children Don’t Like Spicy Food
Sex and Death (i)
Hoop Dream (ii)
Bloodline to Star Power (i)
Adolescence
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