by Jon Lackman | 6 April 2006 | Teaching
‘Googling “Things To Do Before You Die” — as I did recently — is to be overwhelmed by what seems to be a unifying human obsession. I found no less than 880 million web postings dedicated to the goals people want to check off before taking the final dirt nap … Some appeal to those wishing to beef up their criminal record (“rob a bank”, “sucker punch a member of the Bush family”) or their record between the sheets (“read the Kama Sutra and put a little theory into practice”).’ ‘Most lists are a mixture of … the inspirational (“run a marathon”) … the exotic (“swim with dolphins”, “ride a camel into the desert”)’ and ‘the mundane (“drive a Dodge Viper”, “take an art history class”).’
