Bodies in motion and at rest
Subtitle: essays
By: by Thomas Lynch
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780393049275
Subjects: Life
Description: "Thomas Lynch, called a cross between Garrison Keillor and William Butler Yeats, reminds us not only of how we die but also of how we live." "The essays assembled here explore the human condition at the intersection of millennia, beleaguered by choices and changes, encumbered by mergers and acquisitions, numbed by math and technologies, in search of the meaning of life and time, our lives and times. Lynch tenders life and time - sextons, muckrakers, clergy, caskets, condoms, loved poems, a hated cat, the mall, the Main Street. In an age that seeks to define human experience in retail, high-tech, or pop-psyche terms, these essays speak to the existentials: between human being and ceasing to be, between birth and death, we are bodies in motion and at rest."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Bodies in motion and at rest --; title: Sweeney revisited --; title: Bible studies --; title: Wombs --; title: The bang & whimper and the boom --; title: The way we are --; title: Notes on "a note on the rapture to his true love" --; title: Decca, Dinky, Benji & me --; title: The dead priest --; title: Fish stories --; title: The blindness of love --; title: Funerals-R-Us --; title: Johnny, we hardly knew you --; title: Y2Kat --; title: The big enchilada --; title: The oak grove imbroglio --; title: Nora --; title: Reno -- -- Afterword; title: Time time time.