Цепочка: учиться умирать — учиться жить

Дуга через двадцать лет письма: от стоической репетиции смерти к искусству
присутствия. Сам дрейф — образцовый случай priznavay-protivorechie.

1. Смерть — предмет прицела; не думать — не выход — nauchitsya-umirat

   The end of our race is death; ‘tis the necessary object of our aim, which, if it fright us, how is it possible to advance a step without a fit of ague?
   — I.19, unit i19

2. Разоружить новизну — nauchitsya-umirat

   Let us disarm him of his novelty and strangeness, let us converse and be familiar with him
   — I.19, unit i19

3. Плод: свобода — uchis-umirat-chtoby-byt-svobodnym

   The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die has unlearned to serve.
   — I.19, unit i19

4. Мост: научить умирать = научить жить — nauchitsya-umirat

   he who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
   — I.19, unit i19

5. Репетиция утрат в мирном варианте: лавка — zadnyaya-lavka

   to the end that when it shall so fall out that we must lose any or all of these, it may be no new thing to be without them.
   — I.38, unit i38

6. Мера жизни — употребление, не длина — zhizn-sama-sebe-remeslo

   Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time
   — I.19, unit i19

7. Поздний разворот: жить — само занятие — iskusstvo-zhit

   What? have you not lived? that is not only the fundamental, but the most illustrious, of your occupations.
   — III.13, unit iii13

8. Финал: присутствие — iskusstvo-zhit

   When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.
   — III.13, unit iii13

Принципы на выходе: uchis-umirat-chtoby-byt-svobodnym →
zhizn-sama-sebe-remeslo.