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...With their £5,000 carbon-fibre bikes and special diets, they believe they can control age and decay. They believe they can hold off death. They are mistaken....
...But I do relish this shift to celebrating the inevitability of natural decay over artificial perfection at Christmas; last year, I covered my mantel in a combination of dried hydrangea heads, flowering ivy...
...But more even than those movies, something telling about La Dolce Vita lay in its reception in the city itself, stunned at the mirror held up to it in this endlessly sly portrait of glamour and decay....
...It’s quite a peripheral thing [in the music] but it symbolises the decay of western values and is resonant today.”...
...It’s fragile but it resists decay — it’s something we can rescue from the dead. That’s why people have been keeping it for centuries. Even today, people still cut hair off a corpse....
...Christian Sanders sang Dorian with a raspy yet sweet tenor that projected the young man’s innocence amid the onslaught of moral decay....
...While Jesus wept for Jerusalem, wrote the Platonist scholar Gregory Vlastos, “Socrates never shed a tear for Athens.” No wonder he is a hero to the British Museum....
...… Let God Arise: The War and Rebellion of the Camisards, by W Gregory Monahan, OUP, RRP£75/$115 In 1702 the Protestant Camisards of the remote Cévennes region of southern France rose up against the...
...Ginsberg celebrated youthful vigour, but he also documented decay with a certain existential relish....
...A paper from Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton at Cambridge University, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, shows that Bennet-Clark was right....
...Yeats bought the medieval tower-house of Thoor Ballylee, near his friend Lady Gregory’s estate of Coole Park, in March 1917 for just £35....
...Autumn is the most poignant season, for all sorts of reasons (the slanting, piercing light, the sweet smell of decay)....
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