Death Flashcards
Usurp the naturalness of death.
Entertainment: x4
Science/ Glory x3
Arthur likes “life against life”
“the lord delirious with delight… excitement”
“cut off the head and impaled it up high”
“errand… to scare Guinevere and cause her to die”
I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave
I collected bones from charnel houses; and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame.
-analysing all the minutiae of causation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life
Natural:
G nature as metaphor
F misses the change of nature
following Caroline, evil
“All ripens, then rots, that sprang in such hope./ So the year passes on through its series of yesterdays”
Winter, spring, and summer, passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves
that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul
Doesn’t fear- leads to acts of immoderation and leads astray G: task= worth death his nature W: C:
“id rather fall dead than fail in this task”
“cowardice urged me/ to traffic in greed, forsaking my nature”
I had rather die, than return shamefully
I may die; — for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Fears G: Its not bad to fear (B) Deer Sleep scared Post- Caroline Cry at life What death does to the frame of humanity
“ you like being alive. I don’t blame you for/ that!”
“they screamed and they bled and they died on the/ hills”
“in heavy troubled sleep, the night muttered in/ dreams,/ like a man who was suffering the deepest anxiety”
that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul
Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue, and the dreadful suspense I endured for several hours, this sudden certainty of life rushed like a flood of warm joy to my heart
I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life; I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain.
Unnatural avoidance: G; used to trust in Mez Porter vampy profane
his firm belief, above all else,/ was that his strength came from the five joys / that noble queen of heaven took in her child”
porter: “knelt before him, praying good fortune… that God should/ preserve him”
nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave,
disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame.