This was death's kingdom, the red-wet belly of the ship, the place where foully wounded men came to face the surgeon and, in all likelihood, eternity.
For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
Realizing he will face eternity in prison if he doesn't use it, the man nods and suffers a fatal heart attack.
Odd how many suffering members of humankind have faced eternity obsessed with their bowels, their bedsores, or the meagemess of their diets.
Now he is himself, facing eternity.
Think what lies ahead as these ordinary souls come to face eternity.
"Do you think, my beloved, that I would want to face eternity without you?"
I will face eternity with you, Julien.
But if he got lucky, they'd think they were facing eternity.
And none of you faced either doin' that or spending eternity as a nothin' in a whirling storm of nothin' else.