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The narrative motor of that genre, according to snobs and skeptics, consists of one damn thing after another, but you could say the same of Homer's Odyssey, and, if memory serves, I don't believe Odysseus ever clung to the rusty wing of a crashed bomber as it perched athwart a raging waterfall.
Gawande describes old age as an ongoing series of losses which accumulate to the ODTAA syndrome: the syndrome of One Damn Thing After Another.
For a teaser of the film click here and get lured into the urban chambers of one damn dazzling dame, err serpent.
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Included in the correspondence, which she took pains to preserve for her niece, was the subject of "one damned night of folly," as the Dunbars called it: "rape" as Alexander characterizes it.
The second surprise and pleasure is that she sidesteps the temptation of the "one damn thing after another" version of history: this book is wittily organised into big propositions with laconic headings – Interactions, Experiments, Laws, Institutions, Invisibles – and each of these subdivides into smaller, bite-sized themes.
Well, the next day you have this baby to take care of and you have the memory of that baby coming out, but other than that, now you're into the nuts and bolts of that one damn thing after another that life seems to be and that's what this is.
If you skip all Tolstoy's longueurs on moral philosophy, as do all but the wilfully masochistic, it's a blockbustery good read: simply, as is much of history, one damn thing after another, with romance and politics and exploding horses.
Mostly they follow the notion of life as one damn thing after the other.
The book eventually resembles the disillusioned schoolboy's perception of history as "one damn thing after another".There is a structure, in the sense that different chapters are organised around themes like hedge funds, financial supermarkets or securitised debt.
But none of that matters when someone is carelessly speeding on a quiet side street, talking on their phone and not paying one damn bit of attention to the kid desperately trying to get out of the way.
In a constantly changing palimpsest of overdrawing, it's one damn thing after another.
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