A few moments before he had been happy with his death, because he had thought he was dead. Because a dead man can be happy with his irremediable situation. But a living person can’t resign himself to being buried alive.
From the short story “Eyes of a Blue Dog” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (translation by Gregory Rabassa)
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Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.