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With no knowledge of the grave, no body to venerate, and no relics to touch, survivors of the missing are left with the most fertile imaginations. [...] Without a corpse, most often a spectral metaphor must immediately replace the absent signifier.
— Jun 19, 2019 02:08PM
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As the literature attempted to unfold the mysteries of death, in the end it could only admit that death is always a mystery; that it produces gaps and voids; that, despite the attempts of narrative and figuration, gaps and voids are incapable of being filled.
— Jun 19, 2019 01:53PM
