Thursday, October 11, 2007

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy.
From the final paragraph.

'He's gone.', said someone over him.
He caught these words and repeated them in spirit.
'Death has gone,' he told himself, 'it's gone'.
He took in some air, stopped halfway through a deep breath, stretched out, and died.

In the closing chapters, I was the living Ivan Ilyich. Everything that I thought was right, was wrong.

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