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, have I realized that this is just one of myriad ways of dealing with death, one that is fundamentally no more crude or caring than that of the Callatiae tribe whose custom, as Herodotus attests, was to eat their deceased parents, and who were horrified when they learned of the Greeks’ tradition of cremating theirs
and possibly even a certain conception of the afterlife that, it is fair to imagine, is no less fanciful than our own and just as unverifiable.
, as the Heidelberg professor of zoology put it in the foreword to a slim volume published by Neue Brehm-Bücherei: “It seems to be one of the characteristics of western man that defies rational understanding that he prizes the lost more highly than the existing.
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