“I had always imagined, Westfield said, that one could either die tragically, cut short with much still to be done, or that one could die old and full of years, as the Bible has it, after having put one’s house in order. I had never considered that there is a third alternative, in which one went on living and yet found no order in one’s life, in which everything at the end was as confused and unfinished as it had always been.”
