JL: Borges's mother died at 99, so she was possibly starting to 'corrupt', or 'decompose' as Gilbert would say. But literally, people die usually of
heart attacks, I was told.In the late '50s, when Villa-Lobos was seriously ill, he was asked what he was composing. He replied that he wasn't composing; he was decomposing.
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