Death Kit (47 page)

All he has to do is keep walking. Put one foot in front of the other. Whether Hester is waiting or not.

More rooms. More deaths.

Has Diddy reached his destination?

Dying is overwork.

Again Diddy hears the sound of a train, and faint shouts. A dog barking.

A trim, youngish Negro wearing white jacket and pants wheels a cart to his bed. Reeking of vomit. Who is? Diddy. Diddy the Soiled.

More rooms. Diddy walks on, looking for his death. Diddy has made his final chart; drawn up his last map. Diddy has perceived the inventory of the world.

 

FICTION

The Benefactor

I, etcetera

The Way We Live Now

The Volcano Lover

In America

ESSAYS

Against Interpretation

Styles of Radical Will

On Photography

Illness As Metaphor

Under the Sign of Saturn

AIDS and Its Metaphors

Where the Stress Falls

FILM SCRIPTS

Duet for Cannibals

Brother Carl

PLAY

Alice in Bed

A Susan Sontag Reader

DEATH KIT
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sontag, Susan, 1933–

Death kit / Susan Sontag.

   p. cm.

ISBN 13: 978-0-312-42011-6

1. Title.

PS3569.O6547D4  1991

813'54—dc20

90-22220

CIP

First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First Picador USA Edition: June 2002

eISBN 9781466853546

First eBook edition: October 2013