Do you believe it? That people can get messages from the dead? Mr. Heist considered this. Belief is the word, isnt it, Simon? We believe in many things that are unseen and for which we have no evidence...I think of it this way. Suppose you had a collection of metal filings on a piece of paper. Under it a magnet. What would happen to the filings? Theyd all collect to where the magnet was, I guess. Just so. I believe while we are here, our spirits collect, like the filings, into the shape of our beings. When death comes, the magnet is removed and the spirit scatters back out. Just like the filings--the shape is gone, our individual beings, but the filings remain--part of the greater whole. One of many lovely passages from THE CARTOGRAPHER OF NO MANS LAND by P.S. Duffy, with whom I get to have coffee tomorrow afternoon.
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