In the first week of September we had four teenagers drop dead in six days of heart attacks here, and we've had more since, just not in such big numbers. It's a bug problem. We lost a few leading sports people in the last few years too.
Call it fitness gone mad.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller