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O'CONNELL. (2009), "'How to handle eternity': infinity and the theories of J.W. Dunne in the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges and Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman", Irish Studies Review, 17(2), 223-237.’How to handle eternity’: infinity and the theories of J.W. Dunne in the...
Like many of the clas- sical divine attributes familiar in Abrahamic philosophical theism – such as immutability, simplicity, eternity, sovereignty – these unique features showed how the foundational reality must be different from the worldly phenomena it generates. From Self‑existence to Self...
Why? Would you like somebody else to lead your life or are you seeking eternity? A13. I would still, yes, like to make an interactive multimedia hyperlinked compilation of all my writings. Interacting with the construct would be in some sense like talking to me. This construct would easily...
This gesture by a man of the literary stature of Borges is certainly an indication that Lovecraft has finally ascended to his rightful place in the history of American literature, nearly forty years after his death. In the same year that Lovecraft found print in the pages of Weird Takes, ...
, death was their greatest fear and their greatest hope was survival for eternity in an idyllic afterlife. The struggles in the game of Senet began to be associated with the dangers of the journey to the afterlife and the game integrated key narratives of Egyptian religion, telling the story ...
for eternity. But Jesus the Man is not to be seen. We are too wary, these days, of beards and sandalled feet. Yet if we celebrate, let it be that He has invaded our lives with purpose, striding over our picturesque traditions, ...
I don’t believe there’s any reason to. We mustn’t forget that, despite everything, as shown by an example cited above, there are people who have been brought by the reading of “Instantes” to discoverFicciones. Perhaps the history of literature is the history of various great mistakes...