The Trouble With Eden

IV The Trouble with Eden

And so it was over. A man had died, and living men had opened the earth for him and closed it over him. A life which had begun at one specific point in time had ended now at another specific point in time. Lives, like books, have beginnings and endings, first chapters and last chapters.

But the endings of human lives lack the precision of the endings of books. If death is a last chapter, there is still an epilogue to come.

— HUGH MARKARIAN, The Edge of Thought