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“We were once told that nobody was coming to save us, but that was not true, because we had, and still have a few angels lurking around, clothed in human bodies.”

Book:Sips And Little Portions

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“No little boy likes to be called a little man, but any little boy likes to be treated as a little man, and this is what Marian had done for me: at times, and when she had wanted to, she had endowed me with the importance of a grown-up; she had made me feel that she depended on me. She, more than anyone, had puffed me up.”

Little Man Boy Puffed Up

Book:The go-between

Source: The go-between

“EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbour's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime, the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his gluteus maximus.”

Death Egyptian Burial Decomposition Embalming

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“The strategic problem is, of course, that simulacra are reassuring only when viewed from outside. They do not provide an existential model for how to be in the world. One can appreciate the brilliance of the embalmer's work, but one would not want to be its object.”

Embalming Simulacra

Author:Charles Bernheimer

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