A profound and entertaining meditation on what it means to outlive one's usefulness, when the Wheel of Fortune has come full circle . . .
Things are at their most glorious when they decay, provided we give them the chance. Old buildings are usually pulled down or restored. Old people try to act young, because youth and beauty are equated with goodness. In this unique and insightful book, Midas Dekkers reassesses life's journey through analogies with other animal species and the natural world. By evading the lure of decay are we simply trying to escape from the truth: that all life is transitory and that sex and death are inextricably linked? After spring comes the autumn, when the trees yield their fruit and leaves to the wind with a sigh of relief. They've done what they were supposed to do. Is it decay or fulfilment?
