'There is a Spectre Haunting ...': Ghosts, Their Bodies, Some Philosophers, A Novel and the Cultural Politics of Climate Change (Essay)
Borderlands 2008, May, 7, 1
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I 1. The ghost descends on us from the spirit-world, half pagan animus, half Christian soul, it threatens us with the meaning that exceeds us, or what exceeds meaning, the meaning that exceeds meaning, the unknowable, that which has crossed over to the other unknowable side, and then come back. It means something more than us and more than we can understand. Locked as we are in the bodily world, our horizons limited by the degradation of flesh, the spirit terrifies us with things we have forgotten, crimes we have forgotten or suppressed, but that the all-seeing eye of death has always registered, un-erasable, unforgettable and unforgiven, over there. ... Apparently.
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