Which alternative is worse, I wonder? she said. To deny death and thus risk never being wholly alive, or to face oblivion squarely and risk paralysis by dread?
Nobody knows, I said. It's ambiguous.
If I ever get to be God, she said, unleashing the grin of the person who'd invented Largesse, my first act will be to make ambiguity illegal.


Chapter 6 (pp. 134-135) - The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008)

James K. Morrow Quotes

Which alternative is worse, I wonder? she said. To deny death and thus risk never being wholly alive, or to face oblivion squarely and risk paralysis ...

Which alternative is worse, I wonder? she said. To deny death and thus risk never being wholly alive, or to face oblivion squarely and risk paralysis ...

Which alternative is worse, I wonder? she said. To deny death and thus risk never being wholly alive, or to face oblivion squarely and risk paralysis ...

Which alternative is worse, I wonder? she said. To deny death and thus risk never being wholly alive, or to face oblivion squarely and risk paralysis ...