NPPF Commentary Line 209, P. 163

[Terrance]

> Though I did not bring the text with me, the commentary notes that
> everything is subject to decay (anyone have the text to assist here?)  The
> concept of decay ties nicely into the 2nd law of thermodynamics, entropy,
> and Maxwell's Demon (there's a Pynchon connection for you).

What moment in the gradual decay
Does resurrection choose?  
What year?    
What day?
Who has the stopwatch?  
Who rewinds the  tape?
Are some less lucky, or do all escape?

A syllogism:  other people die; but I
Am not another; therefore I'll not die.

Space is swarming in the eyes; and time,
A singing in the ears.  In this hive I'm
Locked up.  Yet if prior to life we had
Been able to imagine life, what mad
Impossible unutterably  weird,
Wonderful nonsense it might have appeared.