Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Life is short!

Found a nice little quote in a philosophy book on Time and Space:

With unrelenting speed, life's scenes fly by, and the grave yawns before us.

"Travels in Four Dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time" by Prof. Le Poidevin, p123.

I have added it to my page: "Satan Represents Death" by Vexen Crabtree (2003)
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Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Ghosts & Clothes

Ghost, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.

There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes back naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or 'in his habit as he lived.' To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability, what object would they have in exercising it? And why does not the apparition of a suit of clothes something walk abroad without a ghost in it? These be riddles of significance.

The Devil's Dictionary




Added to "Physical Interaction between Body and Soul" by Vexen Crabtree (1998).
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