Posthumous

Christy · 10 Feb 2000, 15:26 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: Christy <cglst7+ at pitt.edu>
Subject: (urth) Re: Posthumous
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:26:50
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I haven't read *Strange Travelers* yet (it is en route from Amazon), but I
can say that the jag on living on after death is Swedenborgian. No doubt
at the behest of Jorge Luis Borges, we can assume that Wolfe has read some=20
of his material (*Heaven and Hell* is the most famous and interesting) and
is devoting some airplay to it. Swedenborg explains a system of thanatosis
that has appealed to many (most apparent is William Blake), and most
recently to M. Night Shyamalan, the writer/director of *The Sixth Sense*.
Watch that movie, or read Swedenborg's book, to ask the same horrible
question that Wolfe must have already asked himself: am I already dead?

					-C-

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