The Importance of the Metaphor of Falling on the Furniture

The things that brought Ivani Leach pleasure now kill him, says the author. He was building his earlier life on the supposition that he's immortal and had removed the existence of death from his understanding of his life. "We're all going to die, but this is a long prolonged death in which the in which is it as it were death rubs its nose, your nose in it"