“[he] had become the bloke in the joke: the last man on earth”
“When he picked out the [gravesite] plot, my father had joked that he was moving, at last, to the suburbs.”
“Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.'-- "The Last Trump”
“Last week,he had become so enraged with a visiting scientist who had shown him undue pity that Kholer clambered to his feet and threw a clipboard at the man's head.”
“Then the earth grew old, its landscapes mellowing and showing signs of age, its ways becoming whimsical and strange in the manner of a man in his last years...”
“He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become.”