#487 The Landing- Lydia Davis
A nervous passenger recounts her experience during an
emergency airplane landing. The landing itself is not much of a story, but the
narrator’s fearful thoughts makes up the core of the story. It doesn’t appear
that they are in all that much danger, but she is phobic and so goes through
some of the steps of grief and acceptance.
“Our lives might be almost over. This required an immediate
reconciliation with the idea of death, and it required an immediate decision as
to the best way to leave this world. What should be my last thoughts on this
earth, in this life?”
That would make for a fun dinner party conversation, or
possible the topic of a thesis paper in psychology: If you could choose, what
would be your last thought before you die?
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