From: I. Zelnik
Category: Amis
Date: 8/4/99
Time: 11:01:52 AM
Remote Name: 129.219.247.118
FROM *LONDON FIELDS*: "Guy's faith, a feebly gleaming heirloom (a locket, perhaps, that once belonged to his dead mother), was much tarnished for a while by the clear impossibility of anything surviving such a thorough subtraction of the human body. Take life away, and all you have is the anatomical torment of a single skull."
FROM *CATCH-22*: "Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage."
FROM *A RUMOR OF WAR* BY PHILIP CAPUTO: "The sight of mutilation did more than cause me physical revulsion; it burst the religious myths of my Catholic childhood. I could not look at these men and still believe their souls had 'passed on' to another existence, or that they had had souls in the first place."