"Olive merely sat in front of the fire, with her long legs stretched towwards it. Her eyes remained open, but almost expressionless; too resigned, I thought, even to look sad. Olive was by no means in her first youth, but there was something appealing about her, and, though it may not be a suitable comment for even this confidential record, I thought, by no means for the first time in such surroundings, what an odd way for people of opposite sexes to spend the evening, when, after all, there was nothing ahead that any of us could be sure of but infirmity, illness, and death. It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely."
- R. Aickman
The Unsettled Dust
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