“. . . if one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living.” – Love’s Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom
As I was reading one of the chapters this quote stood out to me. I do not know if it has any meaning to me because no one has recently died in my family that I was very close to. However, every time I think about death I think about my dog, Chubbaca, who was my dog for 14 years and then died of cancer. I think the reason why this quote stood out to me was because it is a type of scheme, an epistrophe (where is repeats again at the end of clause) or antimetabole (where items are repeated in reverse order). Schemes can have a powerful effect on a reader. It made me mournful and rehash an old memory.
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