Gather, darkness

Here’s from the last chapter of Fritz Leiber’s Gather, Darkness! … 

He had seen the last great moment fade, and even about that there had been something desperate and spasmodic, something that became unreal as soon as it was over, like the last rush of a dying carnivore or the last full exertion of physical strength a man makes before he becomes reconciled to old age and a thrifty husbanding of resources.

I reached that point in the book just as I was wrapping up one substantial website build and getting ready to start another and it struck me … unreal as soon as it was over … last rush of a dying carnivore … thrifty husbanding of resources. Concepts increasingly less foreign.