What do you do to forget that you will die?

Perhaps you throw yourself into altruistic activities, like teaching the elderly to exercise. Maybe you seek a sense of control by going to a supermarket, where the glossy aisles of products offer endless possibilities for decision and distraction. Or you could intellectualize endlessly to make your brain whir in such a way that it might ignore the dark cloud on the horizon. But in White Noise, the dark cloud won't relent. Under its threat of doom,...

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