For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins
For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins
Or being an aggravation of the existing calamity was the influx from the country into the city, and this was especially felt by the new arrivals. As there were no houses to receive them, they had to be lodged at the hot season of the year in stifling cabins, where the mortality raged without restraint. The bodies of dying men lay one upon another, and half-dead creatures reeled about the streets and gathered round all the fountains in their longing for water. The sacred places also in which they had quartered themselves were full of corpses of persons that had died there, just as they were; for as the disaster passed all bounds, men, not knowing what was to become of them, became utterly careless of everything, whether sacred or profane. All the burial rites before in use were entirely upset, and they buried the bodies as best they could. Many from want of the proper appliances, through so many of their friends having died already, had recourse to the most shameless sepultures: sometimes getting the start of those who had raised a pile, they threw their own dead body upon the stranger’s pyre and ignited it; sometimes they tossed the corpse which they were carrying on the top of another that was burning, and so went off. An account from 430 BC. [...]
Or, we ask, tenderly, How would you like to be buried? – and you answer, You can bury me however you please... if you catch me and I do not get away from you! (*SOFT LAUGHTER* Looking up at us) I cannot persuade Y, my friends, that the X that is now conversing and arranging the details of his argument is really I; he thinks I am the one whom he will presently see as a CORPSE – and he asks me how to bury me. And though I have been saying at great length that after I drink the poison I shall no longer be with you, but shall go away to the joys of the blessed you know of, he seems to think that was idle talk uttered to encourage you and myself. So, give security for me to Y, the opposite of that which he gave the judges at my trial; for he gave security that I would remain, but you must give security that I will not remain when I die, but shall GO AWAY, so that Y may bear it more easily, and may not be troubled when he sees my body being burned or buried, or think that I am undergoing terrible treatment, and may not say at the funeral that he is laying out X, or following him to the grave, or burying him. For, dear Y, you may be sure that such wrong words are not only undesirable in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. (*PAUSE*) No, you must be of good courage, and say that you bury my BODY – and bury it as you think best and as seems to you most fitting. Spoken – calmly, a little dolefully – in 399 BC. Not for the first time [...]
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Or, we ask, tenderly, How would you like to be buried?<br />
– and you answer, You can bury me however you<br />
please... if you catch me and I do not get away from you!<br />
(*SOFT LAUGHTER* Looking up at us) I cannot persuade Y,<br />
my friends, that <strong>the</strong> X that is now conversing and arranging<br />
<strong>the</strong> details of his argument is really I; he thinks I am <strong>the</strong> one<br />
whom he will presently see as a CORPSE – and he asks me how<br />
to bury me. And though I have been saying at great length that<br />
after I drink <strong>the</strong> poison I shall no longer be with you, but shall<br />
go away to <strong>the</strong> joys of <strong>the</strong> blessed you know of, he seems to<br />
think that was idle talk uttered to encourage you and myself.<br />
So, give security for me to Y, <strong>the</strong> opposite of that which he gave<br />
<strong>the</strong> judges at my trial; for he gave security that I would remain,<br />
but you must give security that I will not remain when I die, but<br />
shall GO AWAY, so that Y may bear it more easily, and may not<br />
be troubled when he sees my body being burned or buried, or<br />
think that I am undergoing terrible treatment, and may not say<br />
at <strong>the</strong> funeral that he is laying out X, or following him to <strong>the</strong><br />
grave, or burying him. <strong>For</strong>, dear Y, you may be sure that such<br />
wrong words are not only undesirable in <strong>the</strong>mselves, but <strong>the</strong>y<br />
infect <strong>the</strong> soul with evil. (*PAUSE*) No, you must be of good<br />
courage, and say that you bury my BODY – and bury it as you<br />
think best and as seems to you most fitting.<br />
Spoken – calmly, a little dolefully – in 399 BC. Not for<br />
<strong>the</strong> first time<br />
[...]
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