“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” —HENRY ADAMS
The Fourth Tuesday: We Talk About Death
“Let’s begin with this idea,” Morrie said. “Everyone knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it.”
He was in a businesslike mood this Tuesday. The subject was death, the first item on my list.
Before I arrived, Morrie had scribbled a few notes on small white pieces of paper so that he wouldn’t forget.
His shaky handwriting was now indecipherable to everyone but him.
It was almost Labor Day, and through the office window I could see the spinach-colored hedges of the backyard
and hear the yells of children playing down the street, their last week of freedom before school began.
Back in Detroit, the newspaper strikers were gearing up for a huge holiday demonstration, to show the solidarity of unions against management.
On the plane ride in, I had read about a woman who had shot her husband and two daughters as they lay sleeping,
claiming she was protecting them from “the bad people.”
In California, the lawyers in the O. J. Simpson trial were becoming huge celebrities.
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