gimley reviewed Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
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3 stars
Remember, you must die. And you must pay your taxes. There are penalties if you forget the second, but the first? Most of us don't spend much time thinking about it and neither do Muriel Sparks characters, most of whom are older than we are, and, at any rate, die at the end of the book.
People who are under the impression that they live rational lives think they are getting closer to reality if they watch the meat the will have for dinner be slaughtered and butchered and if they remember they're not immortal, but I would suggest the real truth they evade is the knowledge that the lives they lead are not rational at all. Instead, what pulls them along is a good narrative and the one in this book suffices.