I’ve known the intuitive only peripherally, so I won’t be among those called to her bedside, but a friend who has been tells me they’ve never seen a more graceful exit. And since none of us believe consciousness can be destroyed, some of us are genuinely excited for her, as I believe she is for […]
Surgery should be performed on rabbits only as a last resort, because rabbits, the vet told me, are less likely than other domesticated animals to survive general anaesthesia. It’s believed this is because rabbits lack the requisite will to live. I was involved with a French lop at the time, big as a small dog […]
“I’m just waiting to die,” she says, and not for the first time. “Me, too,” I say, and I tell her about the train station, its tiny platform, windswept, deserted, near the end of a line in rural Japan. Mount Fuji is in the distance, of course, snow-capped and posterized, exactly as Kawase Hasui would have […]
