The dead are practical.
Tim W. Burke, The Flesh Sutra.
“No, not horror. Enlightenment.”
“If it is a loving environment, the cage can be a home.”
“You are the man who made himself a devil, who wishes to be a god, all for love.”
“The gods speak to us, and irony is their language.”
“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ...”
“Life is but a dream for the dead.”
“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”