SLSL dealing with Death

[Prudencio Aguilar]

Pre-adult ways of dealing with death? That include
enjoying life before Death comes to get us. Eat,
drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we shall die.  Sow
your wild oats Plowboy. Carpe diem! 

"They evade: they sleep late, they seek
euphemisms…make with the jokes…hook it up with death."
 SL.5 

Pre-adults evade death, work detail, anything but a
party. They sleep late if they can. They are on a
hedonistic biological clock. They are driven by some
deep evolutionary stuff to stay up at night and party
(sex included) into the morning and "sleep in" until
noon. Do they mix sex with death? When they do it
usually makes headlines. He claims they were having
rough sex or that choking his lover enhanced her
orgasm and his.  Of course, our pre-adults don't
always choose hedonism as a strategy for dealing with
Death. Pessimism and suicide are popular.  I lost an
18 year old cousin to heroine. He never even got to
eat cancer or snarl into an MTV camera or make it so
big that the only way out of fame was eternal fame.
For every Agamemnon there are a million not given
eternal life by Homer and Rolling Stone. Bury me with
my horse, with my boots on. If my wife is alive, toss
her in too. It's no wonder that the men in TSR deal
with death as they do. It comes with the territory.
Like a shoeshine. In the '60s, some men turned away
from the West and its death and looked East. There
they still found a soul. But what about all those
Jewish character in Pynchon's early fictions, the
Wandering Jew. Joyce? All those Jewish novelists that
were popular at the time? The Wandering Jew belongs to
history. To time. So does Jesus. Mark 12. 


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