Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans.<br /><br />Join the Rat Race "just for a while."<br /><br />Concentrate on your career "just for a while."<br /><br />Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while."<br /><br />Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while."<br /><br />Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while.

Christopher Brookmyre