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Corpus
"The memory of a dead person lives just as long and just as fully as often and how properly he is remembered by the people that were close to him. This widely acknowledged banality is not as simple as it might seem. According to our legends, the person is beginning to be forgotten as soon as his soul leaves his body. Only constant mental effort, which demands really inhuman exertion, most thorough concentration of attention, memory and imagination allow us to keep the dead among the living just as if he were alive.

This primitive childish view of life after death, which has nothing to do with the existence of the soul after its owner is deceased, has set in quite firmly in the late colonists’ traditions. Perhaps it has something to do with the special role of small children in our society."