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Anna Caldwell has spent the last few days in a blur. She's seen her brother's dead body, witnessed the shooting of innocent civilians, and been shot at herself. Now she has nowhere to turn-and only one person she can possibly call. Since Anna dumped him, it seems waiting is all Josiah Wolfe has done. Now she's calling, and she needs his help-or rather, the \"talents\" she once ran away from. As a liquidation agent, Josiah knows everything about getting out of tough situations. But the story Anna's stumbled into is far bigger than even Josiah suspects. Anna wants to survive, Josiah wants Anna back, and the powerful people chasing her want the only thing worth killing for--immortality. An ancient evil has been trapped, a woman is in danger, and the world is going to see just how far a liquidation agent will go ...
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Divine Immortality and Its (Dis)Contents: The Rhetorical Function of the Tithonus Figure in the Lyric Poetry of Horace and Sappho
References to the myth of Tithonus and Eos in the poetry of Horace and his pre-classical Greek model, Sappho, have provoked philological controversies about the imagined mode of existence of the handsome Trojan after his abduction by Eos, Goddess of Dawn. According to the standard variant of the myth, Tithonus was granted immortality, though not eternal youth, by the supreme Olympian god, Zeus. In the two Horatian passages in the Odes where Tithonus is named, he is categorized among deceased heroic figures (C.I.28 and II.16). This apparent deviation from the conventional account of Tithonus’ “immortality” is explicable in terms of the deep argument of both poems, in which the everlasting life of gods is inextricably coupled with their eternal youth, while the old age of mortals is represented as a metonymic equivalent of death—a conceptual complex that is implicitly shared with the Sapphic portrayal of the hero’s fate in Fr.58.
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Earthly immortalities : how the dead live on in the lives of others
In this thought-provoking book, Peter Moore examines the often overlooked issues concerning human mortality, the fragile ways in which the dead can be said to \"live on\" in earthly terms: through their children, their work, the memories of others, their possessions, and even their bodies. Such earthly immortalities raise a host of fascinating questions about our attitudes toward life, and toward the world we leave behind us when we die. To what extent does the meaning we find in our lives depend upon the assumption there will always be a new generation to continue the human adventure? What would it be like if science were able to extend life indefinitely, and is this something already enshrined in the doctrine of reincarnation? Can we solve our anxieties about mortality by learning that life is worth living precisely because we do not live forever? In a generous and eloquent account, these and more are the questions Earthly Immortalities seeks to answer.
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Exploring the Immortological Imagination: Advocating for a Sociology of Immortality
The digital age has rekindled popular and academic interest in immortality. While the idea of immortality has long been recognized as fundamental to human societies, unlike death, within the field of sociology, immortality has not yet established itself as a distinct and autonomous field of study. This paper contributes to the recently emerging scholarship promoting a sociology of immortality. Drawing inspiration from C. Wright Mills’s sociological imagination (1959) and building upon significant research in the field of immortality, we offer to use the concept of the immortological imagination as an analytical and conceptual tool for further developing a sociology of immortality. We refer to the immortological imagination as a complementary concept to Penfold-Mounce’s thanatological imagination, seeing both concepts as stemming from two different lineages and academic traditions. After defining the immortological imagination and how it differs from and complements the thanatological imagination, the paper moves to discuss examples in popular culture establishing the potential impacts and influences of the immortological imagination, particularly within the digital context.
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The girl in the green silk gown
\"For Rose Marshall, death has long since become the only life she really knows. She's been sweet sixteen for more than sixty years, hitchhiking her way along the highways and byways of America, sometimes seen as an avenging angel, sometimes seen as a killer in her own right, but always Rose, the Phantom Prom Date, the Girl in the Green Silk Gown. The man who killed her is still out there, thanks to a crossroads bargain that won't let him die, and he's looking for the one who got away. When Bobby Cross comes back into the picture, there's going to be hell to pay--possibly literally. Rose has worked for decades to make a place for herself in the twilight. Can she defend it, when Bobby Cross comes to take her down? Can she find a way to navigate the worlds of the living and the dead, and make it home before her hitchhiker's luck runs out? There's only one way to know for- sure\"--Provided by publisher.
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Sparrow Hill Road
\"Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross--a man who had sold his soul to live forever, and intended to use her death to pay the price of his immortality. Trouble was, he didn't ask Rose what she thought of the idea. It's been more than sixty years since that night, and she's still sixteen, and she's still running. They have names for her all over the country: the Girl in the Diner. The Phantom Prom Date. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown. Mostly she just goes by \"Rose,\" a hitchhiking ghost girl with her thumb out and her eyes fixed on the horizon, trying to outrace a man who never sleeps, never stops, and never gives up on the idea of claiming what's his. She's the angel of the overpass, she's the darling of the truck stops, and she's going to figure out a way to win her freedom. After all, it's not like it can kill her. You can't kill what's already dead\"--Back cover.
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The Poem Lifting Us Up to the Divine Guardian
The article focuses on the role of Pindar’s poetry as an assurance of divine care for man, and thus as an incentive to man to transcend his entrapment in the transience of the everyday moment. The shadowy dream of human ephemerality is illuminated by divine grace (χάρις), conveyed through the psychagogic power of poetry in the poet’s voice – sweeter than honeycomb. For Pindar, God is not only the Guardian and the Steward (θεὸς ἐπίτροπος), who ‘prepares everything for us mortals’ (fr.141), but also the ‘mighty Father’ and ‘the most excellent Artist’ (ἀριστοτέχνα πάτερ), who grants the poet his poem. In this light, attentiveness to the religious origin of Pindar’s poetry, in addition to the mythical and factual details of the epinikia, can still spur us to a spiritual ascent toward the divine Guardian.
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A beginner's guide to immortality : from alchemy to avatars
\"Is it possible to live forever? People have been trying to figure out a way to escape mortality since, well, forever. This book takes readers on a ... tour of several wacky and wise methods humans have used to try prolonging their lives, from ancient immortality elixirs and quests for a fountain of youth to modern-day research into cryogenics and robotics\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Way to Immortality: The Theory of Human Nature and Destiny of Ge Hong, a Religious Thinker
Ge Hong, a religious thinker, has a philosophy of life that integrates Confucianism and Daoism that is reflected in his theory of human nature and destiny. It is embodied in several related concepts. First, “human nature and destiny are inherently natural”. This means that human nature and destiny are inevitable and determined. On the one hand, Ge Hong denied this concept to demonstrate the possibility of immortality; on the other hand, he accepted it in terms of whether an individual could become an immortal. This gave his thought a distinct dualist feature. Second, the “law of human nature and destiny” served as the foundation for discussing the rationality of the cultivation of immortality during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Ge Hong also used the law to demonstrate the rationality of the way to immortality. Third, the essence of the way to immortality can be presented through the theory of human nature and destiny, which is to transform humans into immortals through certain means, known as “transforming life and destiny”.
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