#on death

Young girls shouted her name as they brought her to the gallows.

The crowd was informed the mermaid's tongue had been removed. She was prevented from singing. If she sang, she would cause members of the audience to run onstage and crawl into her tank, where she would proceed to strangle them.

Sometimes the harvester's scythe falls and you are left standing.

The days after Esau’s death were dark and quiet. I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t breathe normally. I didn’t wash myself. I couldn’t focus on anything. I stopped speaking. I never knew death could consume you like that. 

I have no faith in any deity, no belief in a hereafter, but nonetheless I do absolutely believe that I will be with you again. A contradiction, I know.

The brain being considered as the proper organ of the mind, is not to be understood as a single viscus, but in reality a congeries of organs, each of them the seat of a particular mental power, one being appropriated to wonder, another to veneration, others to form, colour, &c., through the whole series thus forming the seat of consciousness, and the centre to which all impressions made upon the nerves distributed over the body are conveyed, and from which the commands of the will are transmitted to put the various parts in motion. “The mind sees through the medium of the eye, just as it thinks or feels through the medium of the brain, and as changes in the condition of the eye deteriorate or destroy the power of vision, without affecting the principle of mind, the obvious inference follows; in like manner may changes in the condition of the brain, destroy the power of feeling or of thinking, and yet, the mind or soul itself remain essentially the same”.

I half expected to see his head break the surface of the water, cheeks puffed with air, eyes bugging from holding his breath for so long, mustache wet and droopy and looking like the legs of a centipede. “What you looking at?” Then that laugh of his.