The Quick & the Dead

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Then do we have the place for you!

You’d be home now if you lived here, as the old signs promised.

But first, a few questions. To determine if you qualify.

What is the difference between being not yet born and having lived, being now dead?

Don’t use reason without imagination here.

A hare is the determinative sign defining the concept of being. Say you catch an actual hare of the desert and place a mirror to his nose; you will observe that a moist breath mark will appear on the glass. The moisture comes from the hare, though there is not a drop of moisture going into him. Does this disprove the axiom “Out of nothing, nothing comes”?

Do you consider the gulf between the material and spiritual worlds only apparent?

Don’t worry about catching the hare.

Do you believe that what has been is also now and that what is to be has already been?

The dead have certain obligations. Is one of them to remember us?

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