“[. . . T]he inevitability of [. . . my own death] has always struck me as distinctly unfair, and somewhat unlikely [. . .].”
Mark Slouka in his essay “Eclogue: On the rich sin of meddling.” July 2009 Harpers, pages 45-48. This quote page 48.
Amanuensis –noun. A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
