“If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.” IfsWayBelieveHas BeensSoulMatterReasonBodyEarthDeathHeavenAnswersRoomsBreakSeasonsEternityLeavingFlightBuriedPassagesWombCorpsesPassage Of Time Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
“Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - ''possessive'', even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his fetus, but you know his corpse. Only you can complete the story of his life, only you know why his body has to be pushed into the fire before its time, and why his toes curl up and fight for another hour on earth.” KnowsMenFeelsFactsStoriesBodyEarthMotherFightingFatherHoursFireStrangeMurderResponsibleToesCorpsesCurlsPossessiveFetus Author:Aravind Adiga
“Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam War, the phrase body count entered our vocabulary. It is an ambiguous phrase, inorganic, even faintly sporty. It distanced us from the painful reality of corpses, of dead, mutilated people.” PeopleThinkingFeelsWarBodyRealityLanguagePainfulObligationLabelsPhrasesVietnamSensibilityVocabularyCorpsesVietnam WarNumbAmbiguous Book:News from the World: Stories and Essays Source: News from the World: Stories and Essays