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The Immortality of Writers is an Ancient Egyptian wisdom text likely to have been used as an instructional work in schools. It is recorded on the verso side of the Chester Beatty IV papyrus (BM 10684) held in the British Museum .
Vampiric immortality is characterized by being conditional, inasmuch as continued access to human blood is necessary to sustain it. [4] [17] Zombie immortality, on the other hand, is characterized by the loss of personhood. [16] [18] Works of fiction featuring immortality can be classified by the number of immortals: one, several, or everyone.
Dag Herbjørnsrud, writing for the American Philosophical Association, describes the 3200-year-old manuscript "The Immortality of Writers", or "Be a Writer" (c. 1200 BC), as a "remarkable example of classical Egyptian philosophy." [5] The manuscript, attributed to the writer Irsesh, states:
Trilling confronts the influence of literary critic V.L. Parrington’s Main Currents in American Thought (1927), and the response to the novels of American writer Theodore Dreiser, to discuss what he sees as the dangerous consequences of a writer's supposed responsibility to a conception of reality as material and physical.
"The Immortal" (original Spanish title: "El inmortal") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in February 1947, [1] and later in the collection El Aleph in 1949. The story tells about a character who mistakenly achieves immortality and then, weary of a long life, struggles to lose it and writes an account of his ...
In his new book, “Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality,” Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan sifts through past and cutting-edge research ...
Robert Ettinger's daughter, who has had no interest in cryonics, is a writer and revolutionary socialist. Ettinger met his second wife, Mae Junod, in 1962 when she attended one of his adult education courses in basic physics. Junod typed and assisted with editing the manuscripts for both The Prospect of Immortality and Man Into Superman.
Ten years later, Francis discussed one of her recurring dreams with Stearn for a book he was writing that included a section on dreams. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Stearn and Francis shared interests in yoga and weightlifting .