¶ Death
Index Entry
Death:
“Comprehending and knowing are eternal. Little children know this fact intuitively. The child can play ‘shoot grandmother,’ because he knows that her love is eternal. You can’t kill grandmother. Grandma, grandpa, and everyone else are eternal. A true story: Father, mother, and little boy are driving along the freeway en route to grandmother’s house. Little boy keeps talking about grandpa and how he is going to play with grandpa. Finally his mother says, ‘Darling, you have forgotten that grandpa is dead.’ Little boy: ‘What! Again?’ Only residual ignorance of temporality dulls the growing comprehension and allows fear to corrupt the child’s innately absolute trust in love.”
¶ Citations
- THINKING OUT LOUD (3): PHYSICAL TEMPORALITY AND ETERNAL PRINCIPLES, World Mag., 11 Sep’73
