A marathon may be a metaphor for life, as we like to suggest, but let’s give it another dimension. Instead of any old mara, let’s make it the notoriously undulant Beachy Head. It becomes ever clearer to me that the analogy is about more than the distance and the fatigue. Factor in the topography — the ascents and descents; the stumbling climb to the peak, the uncontrollable slide into the crevasse — and the image takes on a more realistic, 3D aspect.… READ MORE.... …