In a lively collection of fables, lyrics, humor, aphorisms, riddles, rhyme, and reason, FINAL THOUGHTS presents one mortal's quest to laugh at death.

CONTENTS:

Introduction

01 – PARABLES and FABLES: About Paradoxes and Foibles

02 – EPIGRAMS and EPITAPHS: As Life Is a Joke, so Death Is Its Laughter

03 – REAL-LIFE DIALOGS with DEATH: Cryptic True Tales of the Crypt

04 – The LOST ART of DYING: in Art as in Life (or is it the reverse?)

05 – PORTRAIT of the ARTIST as a YOUNG CORPSE: Story Without a Beginning or a Middle, Just an End

06 – EULOGIES to TWO WHO DIED TOO SOON: To Two Not Forgotten

07 – WALKING to OUR GRAVES: Walking in the March of Time

List of Illustrations

Mark Mathew Braunstein is the author of four other propagandizing books that have exceeded their life expectancies by remaining in print even to this day. He also has scribed more than a hundred ephemeral articles in trashy consumerist magazines, most of which have since folded, and in obscure pedantic academic journals, all written with his intent to save the world, though now he is content to save both his breath and his ink. If he lives that long, he will die too soon. Until that inevitable end, as he believes neither in an afterlife nor in aftershave, he aspires to live out the rest of his earthly existence as a very hairy and very healthy corpse. Visit him at his gravesite or, if you cannot wait, at his website. www.MarkBraunstein.Org