Friday 18 May 2012

Next life

Elizabeth Bibesco (in “Haven”, 1951) said ‘death is a part of this life, not the next.’ But this hardly goes far enough: for the ‘next life’ is part of this life too. Nextness is quintessentially the idiom of living; it is life that is one thing after another, and death by definition the cancellation of that order.

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