Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as “Never again”. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
For tomorrow, we arm for our own type of war.
– modified heavily from obvious; also TIL that “nevermore” can also be interpreted as “never again”
Fredric Brown wrote a fun very short story (he was known for page-long short stories) about a scientist who discovered immortality and took the serum, but he had a cold at the time, so the bacteria also became immortal, took over his body, became pneumonia and put him in a coma. Eventually, his colleagues buried him.
Edit: Found the story. Got the details slightly wrong, but the gist was the same- fb2.top/…/part-16
I tried a few years ago to be smarter about it and instead of bookmarking I’d schedule-send myself an email with the link to the article to force myself to read it when I have time. It worked for a while until it didn’t and my email box is now littered with hundreds of “[MUST READ]” unread emails 👀
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