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CONTENTS
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
PROLOGUE: Letter to My Father
Infancy and Childhood
Our Birth Is Nothing but Our Death Begun
Decline and Fall (i)
Boys vs. Girls (i)
Origins
Paradise, Soon Lost
News Flash: We Are Animals
Motherhood
The Actuarial Prime of Life, or Why Children Don’t Like Spicy Food
Sex and Death (i)
Hoop Dream (ii)
Bloodline to Star Power (i)
Adolescence
Rattlesnake Lake
Boys vs. Girls (ii)
Why Lionesses Prefer Dark Brunettes, or Why Both Men and Women Are Attracted to Deep Voices
Superheroes
Hoop Dreams (iv and v)
Dying Just a Little
Ye Olde Mind-Body Problem
Sex and Death (ii)
Adulthood and Middle Age
Decline and Fall (ii)
Bloodline to Star Power (ii)
Boys vs. Girls (iii)
Sex Changes (Everything)
Memento Mori
The Trouble with Being Food
Everything I Know I’ve Learned from My Bad Back
Notes on the Local Swimming Hole
Sex and Death (iii)
Hoop Dream (viii)
Old Age and Death
Decline and Fall (iii)
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead
Boys vs. Girls (iv)
Chronicle of Death Foretold
Death Is the Mother of Beauty
Life Is That Which Gives Meaning to Life
How to Live Forever (i)
How to Live Forever (ii)
Last Words
Bloodline to Star Power (iii)
Sex and Death (iv)
The Story Told One Last Time, from Beginning to End
Exit Interviews
Notes for Eulogy for My Father
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A Note About the Author
Also by David Shields
Copyright
For my father, 1910–
That, finally, is all it means to be alive:to be able to die.
—J. M. Coetzee
PROLOGUE
Letter to My Father
Let the wrestling match begin: my stories versus his stories.
This book is an autobiography of my body, a biography of my father’s body, an anatomy of our bodies together—especially my dad’s, his body, his relentless body.
This is my research; this is what I now know: the brute facts of existence, the fragility and ephemerality of life in its naked corporeality, human beings as bare, forked animals, the beauty and pathos in my body and his body and everybody else’s body as well.
Accept death, I always seem to be saying.
Accept life, is his entirely understandable reply.
Why am I half in love with easeful death? I just turned 51. As Martin Amis has said, “Who knows when it happens, but it happens. Suddenly you realize that you’re switching from saying ‘Hi’ to saying ‘Bye.’ And it’s a full-time job: death. You really have to wrench your head around to look in the other direction, because death’s so apparent now, and it wasn’t apparent before. You were intellectually ............

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