Much less impressive is the impact of death and its countless heralds than the human capacity to live ignoring them all, to live as if the possibility of them suddenly appearing was non-existent. It is truly extraordinary that the bulk of minds spend their entire lives without reflecting for a second on what is perhaps the only existential certainty, and therefore do not even suspect the wide-open fragility of everything. And so, again and again, those who think will have to face the surprise of others with what should in no way surprise them.