“an acute awareness of death gives a greater appreciation of life” Heidegger
Concept
“No city is more inclined to enjoy life and flee care. And to make the leap from life to death less abrupt, the inhabitants have constructed an identical copy of their city, underground…
They say that every time they go below ground they find something has changed in the lower Eusapia; the dead make innovations in their city; not many, but surely the fruit of sober reflection… So the Eusapia of the living has taken to copying its underground copy.
They say that this has not just now begun to happen: actually it was the dead who built the upper Eusapia, in the image of their city. They say in the twin cities there is no longer any way of knowing who is alive and who is dead.”
Italo Calvino
2011
2011
Paul Browning
