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Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bones will still be lying there, in place, content, patiently waiting, but his flesh will have gotten up and left him. Water is like flesh. Water will not stand still. It is always off to somewhere else; restless, talkative, and curious. Even water in a covered jar will disappear in time. Flesh is water. Stones are like bones. Satisfied. Patient. Dependable. Tell me, then, Alobar, in order to achieve immortality, should you emulate water or stone? Should you trust your flesh or your bones?

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Tom Robbins

Jitterbug Perfume

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Those who die young, they are cheated,_ she said. __ot cheated out of life, because life is a penance, but the young, they__e cheated because they don__ know it__ coming. They don__ have time to move closer, to return home. When you know you__e going to die, you try to be near the bones of your own people. You don__ even think you have bones when you__e young, even when you break them, you don__ believe you have them. But when you__e old, they start reminding you they__e there. They start turning to dust on you, even as you__e walking here and there, going from place to place. And this is when you crave to be near the bones of your own people. My children never felt this. They had to look death in the face, even before they knew what it was. Just like you did, no?

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Edwidge Danticat

The Farming of Bones