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- catalog abstract ""Aged buildings are usually pulled down or restored. Aging people desperately try to act and look young because novelty, youth, and beauty are equated in our minds with what is desirable. Mankind alone refuses nature's model and is bothered by the realization that "life is a way of dying slowly." But, by ignoring or evading the lure of decay, are we simply trying to escape from the truth?" "Midas Dekkers argues that things are at their most beautiful when they deteriorate, provided they are given the chance. With the idiosyncratic erudition of the European intellectual - Roberto Calasso and Umberto Eco come to mind - Dekkers stresses that our aversion to decay and mortality makes our lives shallow. This is the meditative essay as Fellini might have written it; Dekkers asserts that ancient Rome's days of decline were its finest. The Way of All Flesh is at once a wonderfully witty book about the inevitable ruin of everything from bodies to works of art to ideals and a profound meditation on what it means to outlive one's usefulness, when the wheel of fortune has gone full circle."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Vergankelijkeid. English".
- catalog contributor b11907360.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Aged buildings are usually pulled down or restored. Aging people desperately try to act and look young because novelty, youth, and beauty are equated in our minds with what is desirable. Mankind alone refuses nature's model and is bothered by the realization that "life is a way of dying slowly." But, by ignoring or evading the lure of decay, are we simply trying to escape from the truth?"".
- catalog description ""Midas Dekkers argues that things are at their most beautiful when they deteriorate, provided they are given the chance. With the idiosyncratic erudition of the European intellectual - Roberto Calasso and Umberto Eco come to mind - Dekkers stresses that our aversion to decay and mortality makes our lives shallow. This is the meditative essay as Fellini might have written it; Dekkers asserts that ancient Rome's days of decline were its finest. The Way of All Flesh is at once a wonderfully witty book about the inevitable ruin of everything from bodies to works of art to ideals and a profound meditation on what it means to outlive one's usefulness, when the wheel of fortune has gone full circle."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-274) and index.".
- catalog description "The Stairway of Life -- Romantic Ruins -- Crumbling on a Grand Scale -- As Good as New -- Old Seed -- The Ravages of Time -- Ashes and Dust -- Souvenirs -- Everlasting Life -- Decay or Fulfilment?".
- catalog extent "280 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0374286825 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng dut".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,".
- catalog subject "612.6/7/01 21".
- catalog subject "Aging.".
- catalog subject "Life cycles (Biology)".
- catalog subject "QH529 .D4513 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Stairway of Life -- Romantic Ruins -- Crumbling on a Grand Scale -- As Good as New -- Old Seed -- The Ravages of Time -- Ashes and Dust -- Souvenirs -- Everlasting Life -- Decay or Fulfilment?".
- catalog title "The way of all flesh : the romance of ruins / Midas Dekkers ; translated from the Dutch by Sherry Marx-Macdonald.".
- catalog title "Vergankelijkeid. English".
- catalog type "text".