Life is a serious disorder

I know that we are morose, crypt-faced, inclined to the view that life is a serious disorder which ultimately proves fatal.

Flann O'Brien, The Best of Myles (Picador, 1977) p. 360

Posterity's antiquities

The queer inverted craft of devising posterity's antiquities.

Flann O'Brien, The Best of Myles (Picador, 1977) p. 160

Death is a process

The kernel of the legal impasse appears to be this – that life is not in law the opposite of death, nor is being born the opposite of dying. Death is a process, resulting usually in a serious fatality.

Flann O'Brien, The Best of Myles (Picador, 1977) p. 160