The Oxford Book of DeathDennis Joseph Enright Oxford University Press, 1983 - 351 psl. "Reading for this anthology," writes D.J. Enright, "I was moved to the thought that on no theme have writers shown themselves more lively." A survivor of Belsen voiced the same sentiment when, reflecting on the concentration camps, he wrote, "When in death we are in the midst of life." By turns poignant, tragic, comic, and inspiring, this anthology of thoughts about death ranges from ancient times to the present day--including almost 900 selections by poets, novelists, philosophers, scientists, and common people. Arranged under headings such as "Love," "War," "Last Words," and "Children," these selections show the varied, sometimes surprising, reactions of the dying and the bereaved to the final human act. |
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... perhaps no one can say that he truly and clearly understands what constitutes it , we at once arrive at the discrimination of death . It is the cessation of the phenomena with which we are so especially familiar - the phenomena of life ...
... perhaps no one can say that he truly and clearly understands what constitutes it , we at once arrive at the discrimination of death . It is the cessation of the phenomena with which we are so especially familiar - the phenomena of life ...
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... perhaps , a shadow hovers , a vague shadow lurks , a shadow of the shadow of uncertainty , and , while he tells himself : " There's nothing for it but to live this passing life , for there is no other ! ' at the same time he hears , in ...
... perhaps , a shadow hovers , a vague shadow lurks , a shadow of the shadow of uncertainty , and , while he tells himself : " There's nothing for it but to live this passing life , for there is no other ! ' at the same time he hears , in ...
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... perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim , or in the bosom of the ocean . JOSEPH ADDISON ( 1672-1719 ) , " Thoughts in Westminster Abbey ' While we rested ourselves on a horizontal monument , which was elevated just high enough to be a ...
... perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim , or in the bosom of the ocean . JOSEPH ADDISON ( 1672-1719 ) , " Thoughts in Westminster Abbey ' While we rested ourselves on a horizontal monument , which was elevated just high enough to be a ...
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