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Author:Hagerup, Henningh

“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

“To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.”

Art Waste Various Clever Unwanted Epitaph Adept Embalming

Author:Roger Zelazny

“The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.”

Friendship Corpses Embalming

Author:William Hazlitt

“The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.”

Way Mind Law Race Becoming Europe Court University Borders Prophet Cracks Factories Frozen Minerals Wrapping Law Courts Embalming

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”

Friendship Gone Substance Mockery About Friendship Friendship Memories Inspiring Friends New Friendship Embalming

Book:William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical

Source: William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical

“I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!”

Source: The works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his Life, written by himself. Together with humorous, moral and literary essays, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator. Among which are several not in any American edition

“I have one last request. Don't use embalming fluid on me; I want to be stuffed with crab meat.”

Want Use Lasts Meat Request Fluid Crabs Embalming

Author:Woody Allen

“As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.”

Has Beens Depression Sight Appearance Deceived Undertaker Embalming

Book:Right Ho, Jeeves

Source: Right Ho, Jeeves

“Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to the earth. the earth welcomes the body-coaxes new life and beauty from it, hurries over what men shudder at. Lovely tender herbage bursts from the graves, swiftly, exulting over corruption.”

Men Giving Body Earth Spirit Gone Progress Corruption Lovely Graves Indian New Life Hinder Life And Beauty Embalming

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.”

Disease Ambition Presidential Fluid Embalming

Author:John McCain

“Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.”

Appearance Bureaucracy Maintaining Fluid Paperwork Embalming

Author:Robert H. Meltzer

“Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly fuel and excellent fertilizer, but also the complete destruction of physical historical data. On the other hand, the custom of embalming and mummification is most praiseworthy and highly to be recommended.”

Hands Habit Waste Destruction Historical Data Excellent Fuel Customs Wretched Praiseworthy Anthropologists Prodigals Fertilizer Embalming

Author:Earnest Hooton