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Death

On Not Being

Peter Cave discusses the idea that not existing has never hurt anyone.

Permit me to introduce Mademoiselle Gazelle, a desirable and desired young woman, so named because of her gazellish sleek glidings through Soho’s streets – Mademoiselle Gazelle, with hair cascading, red lipstick a-glowing, radiating youth and beauty. An unlikely candidate for deathly discussions, she may seem, despite high living yens for champagne breakfasts, snortles of coke and amorous encounters.

I: Good evening, Mlle Gazelle.

Mlle G: Good evening, I.

I: You are here because of your death experiences?

Mlle G: In a way – though they have been neither experiences nor instances of death.

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