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13 February 2026

immortality

 

I don’t know why I write     or who I’m writing for   but I’m hoping for a breakthrough     before the vicissitudes of age grind me into dust      I regard old age with a shudder        I won’t be an old man     too weak to hold myself together      drooling down my chin    and   shitting in my pants      I’ll check myself out     before it ever comes to that

I never rejected the possibility of an afterlife       I intend to fight my way to immortality      but there are three major obstacles     fear     power      and time    and I’m running out of time      every man carries his own death with him       a wise man confronts that fact at all times      but he fights to be immortal       even as the universe conspires against him     death is nature’s sanction     but nature’s gift is life

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