![]() ![]() In dying, he now realized, you do not encounter death at all, for you are gone before it gets there. But he reflected a great deal on the meaning his near death experience and came to a provocative conclusion on the subject: To everyone’s amazement, including his own, Montaigne made a full recovery. ‘I felt infinite sweetness in this repose, for I had been villainously yanked about by those poor fellows, who had taken the pains to carry me in their arms over a long and very bad road.’ He refused all medicines, sure that he was destined just to slip away. His servants put him to bed he lay there, perfectly happy, not a thought in his head apart from that of how pleasurable it was to rest. He suffered no pain, and no concern at the sight of those around him in emergency mode. Yet in his mind, he was elsewhere entirely: When he at length regained consciousness, he had to fight for every breath in addition, he was vomiting up blood. He was thrown violently to the ground and knocked out. ![]() He was in his mid thirties at the time, and the accident almost killed him. How To Live, or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, by Sarah BakewellĪpat 2:35 am ( Book review, books, France)Īt the beginning of How To Live, Sarah Bakewell recounts the story of a horseback riding accident suffered by Michel de Montaigne, in either 1569 or 1570. ![]()
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