Erstwhile Okie on St. Mark's Place. "That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past."
--What will happen if I run into the road?
--You'll get squished like a pancake and die.
--Then what?
--You'll meet your grandfather and say "Hello, I'm Samuel Glendon McCullough."
--No I won't.
--Why not?
--Because I'll be in the ground in a cemetery.
--Not your soul.
--What about my privates and my bottom?
--Eh... in the ground, yeah.
"Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die â but this is sensualityâs cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live."