Julian Barnes
👤 Speaker
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
I always say death.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
You know, I remember when I first... It's fairly recent.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
I mean, the last 20 years or so, people have started saying past.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
And you say... I was first sort of puzzled by it.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
You know, past.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
Your wife has passed.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
Passed water, passed blood.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
Passed... Oh, passed over.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
But then passed over means passed to another condition.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
But she hasn't.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
She's just passed to a non-condition.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
And I don't like the language.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
I don't like euphemism.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
And, you know, if people object to it, tough.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
Well, I was a very lowly figure on the oxygen dictionary.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
It's a new supplement.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
But I worked on letters between C and G. And my specialities were sports words and dirty words.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
No, I don't want to pollute your airwaves.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
Oh, come on.
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Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
Okay, I'll tell you.