We’re all afraid of the Reaper — and we’re all pursuing strategies to deny, defy or defeat him. Whether we hope to quaff the elixir of life, to rise again, to live on as a spirit or through leaving a legacy, we’re all following one of four paths that promise a route to life everlasting. Our striving for eternity shapes everything from our choice of breakfast to the clash of civilisations.
But Cave argues that the pursuit…
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Oliver's diagnostic sermon undresses the zeitgeist on the operating table before making a sanative incision or two. Rabid materialism fuels the rat race and we end up depressed because we are not somebody else." Inner concordance" is quite a mouthful but it can help.' Till human voices wake us and we drown'. Prufrock
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Jaron is a wunderkind and James no less. To have grasped the purport of what was tumbling out of Jaron's mouth like a Niagara of words is no mean feat. Eminently re-watchable for the awesome amount of information it encapsulates in about an hour. His penchant for exotic musical instruments is a bonus. Man, however masterful and masterly, is the measure of all things. Artifact should never override the artist or the artisan.
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Cave at his best. He liberates us from the fear of the grim Reaper without prescribing any of the hand-me-down nostrums or panaceas of positiveness-mongers. Whistle, hum, lilt through the finite span even if the tune is sometimes off-key. Perishabilility is our paradise. Protreptic sermon.
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