Death and the Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and FantasyCarl B. Yoke, Donald M. Hassler |
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... things with their hair and put on old ballroom dresses from the museum , while the men don military uniforms and listen to martial music . Then she plays waltzes to induce the men and women to dance together . Gradually these gentlefolk ...
... things with their hair and put on old ballroom dresses from the museum , while the men don military uniforms and listen to martial music . Then she plays waltzes to induce the men and women to dance together . Gradually these gentlefolk ...
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... things . " ' 14 The disillusionment of the concluding lines of " Time " is characteristically Victorian : “ I am heavy of heart because of fleeting time , / and because all things come to nought . 9915 In some of the poems in Latter ...
... things . " ' 14 The disillusionment of the concluding lines of " Time " is characteristically Victorian : “ I am heavy of heart because of fleeting time , / and because all things come to nought . 9915 In some of the poems in Latter ...
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... things that could make life bearable for an im- mortal . Similarly , for mortals the thing that makes death bearable is the knowl- edge of the continued existence of the species . In God Emperor of Dune , Leto combines elements of the ...
... things that could make life bearable for an im- mortal . Similarly , for mortals the thing that makes death bearable is the knowl- edge of the continued existence of the species . In God Emperor of Dune , Leto combines elements of the ...
Contents
Is There Life After Immortality? | 19 |
A Recent Idea | 39 |
The Elves of J R R Tolkien and Sylvia | 57 |
Copyright | |
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