Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

Luis Alberto Urrea
Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as...
Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as...
Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as...
Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as...
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Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

"Death is alive" is a novel, written by Nobel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1988. In this novel, he writes about the ultimate mystery of death and the power of death to put us in a trance. The story follows a young man named Miguel as he tries to uncover the origins of a strange creature called the "flesh-eater." This creature consumes living flesh and takes on many different forms in order to confuse its prey.

The story explores how humans have long been obsessed by death and what it means for us in modern society

Source: The Hummingbirds Daughter

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