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SDPC Introduction Valerie metaphor grief hospital death

Then I was in an elevator car inside the building, and rising toward the house on the roof. Jane wasn’t with me. Another, older lady was having trouble repairing a small mechanism that was fastened to the wall beside the car’s door. I offered to fix it for her; this involved my turning some large screws into place by hand. While I was doing so, the elevator stopped at a floor and the door opened. The lady left, and I hurriedly inserted the last few screws while the door stayed open. Just as I finished — or perhaps nearly so — the door began to close. I leaped toward it. I wedged my shoulder between the door and its frame and forced the door open enough so that I could squeeze out into a hallway of the hospital. The door shut behind me.

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 11 Cunningham Miss starlings killing Rah

[...] “I mean, that Miss Cunningham just leaves this old body of hers behind and appears someplace else as a young girl.”

[...] And behind all these questions there was the big one: Was Seth really a personality who had survived death? [...]

I wrote four more poems of varying merit about that one event and behind the whole affair was defiant recognition of the value of any consciousness, whatever its form. [...]

To kill for convenience … or for the sake of killing involves rather dire consequences, and the emotional value behind such killing is often as important as what is killed. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 8 breathes Rob dishes Who admit

And while I speak to you, my lungs
Rise and fall behind breastbones,
Fill their secret tissue mouths
With the air that swirls in this bright room.
They breathe for me the very breath
Upon which all I am depends,

Yet I do not know how this is done.
Who is this ghost,
This other one?
Who moves the lung?
[...]

The mover, the breather, the dreamer
Shares with me this fond flesh.
He is a twin so like myself
That I cannot recognize his face.
He goes his way and I go mine.
We never meet head-on, and yet
I am aware of this ghost
Behind my every word or act.
Who moves?
[...]

SDPC Part One: Chapter 3 cobbler Sarah village wires bullets

[...] It was hilly and rocky behind the village, but there was a stream up there, and they went up with horses and buckets. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 10 Mark Rob furniture arrangements bookcases

[...] They are always paramount in evolutionary development, being the impetus behind the physical formations.The inner senses themselves, through the use of mental enzymes, imprint the data contained in the mental genes onto the physical camouflage material.

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 5 enzymes plane saucers Rob mental

[...] Even the mental enzymes themselves are interchangeable, as far as the principle behind them is concerned, though for practical purposes they maintain separate and distinct qualities in their materializations in one plane.