“He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.”

“and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.”

“Love was always love anytine anyplace but it was more solid the closer it came to death .”

“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”

“For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”

“No: that fear had been inside him for manyyears, it had lived with him, it had been another shadow cast over hisown shadow ever since the night he awoke, shaken by a bad dream,and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as hehad always believed, but an immediate reality.”

“He was begining to defer his problems in the hope that death would resolve them .”