A Quote by Don DeLillo on anxiety, chaos, control, death,
design, dignity, effort, failure, funerals, government, laws,
life, nations, order, perfection, and world  We start our lives
in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to
devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole
life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but
that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape
and control. Even after death, most particularly after death,
the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete
the scheme, in ritual. Picture a state funeral. It is all
precision, detail, order, design. The nation holds its breath.
The efforts of a huge and powerful government are brought to
bear on a ceremony that will shed the last trace of chaos. If
all geos well, if they bring it off, some natural law of
perfection is obeyed. The nation is delivered from anxiety, the
deceased's life is redeemed, life itself is strengthened,
reaffirmed  Don DeLillo  Contributed by: Zaa