PRESENCE OF MIND, FORESIGHT, THE TELLING OF WATERTIGHT LIES

"I planned my death carefully; unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it. My life had a tendency to spread, to get flabby, to scroll and festoon like the frame of a baroque mirror, which came from following the line of least resistence. I wanted my death, by contrast, to be neat and simple (...) At first I thought I'd managed it."
- Lady oracle, Margaret Atwood