“Deathbed speeches in novels. The soprano bares her soul and collapses on the divan. Citizen Kane and his Rosebud. That’s what we want, I guess. Some message, some meaning expressed in the last moments. What better time for it all to make sense than at the end? But it doesn’t make sense.” He opened his eyes. “The last moments are the same as any other moments. There is no special wisdom.””
Body & Soul
