...Deathly tales
Writers, of all people, must find death damningly external. Here is one event that they cannot negotiate - an event that must intrude on life in a way that is absolute and final, leaving little time for contemplation and none for narration. That is perhaps why Hitchens raced against time to write about his experience of dying, resulting in the publication of Mortality a few months after his death.
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