-^-for posterity-^-

i got this email from one of my lit students this morning. we're talking about death and immortality. they didn't leave their name:

you intended to kill us ,didn't you?
that 's why you said in the class that we were going to die not you !
oh jon, this morning , the first thing i thought about when i woke up was not a breakfast or what i were going to do or my boyfriend but death with a mountain of work on literature and you force us to pull this huge mountain into a mouse 's belly !
i have to be here to ask you the secret of "everlasting life".
help us !
it's me , who else?