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The Soul and What Happened to It

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September 2004, no. 264

The Soul and What Happened to It

by
September 2004, no. 264

Where our language suggests a body and there is none:

there, we should like to say, is a spirit.

Wittgenstein, Investigations

 

Your soul could be that run-down country property

where popes go stamping with their crooks

and priests stand talking in far paddocks,

where scapulars and beads, holy cards

and snow dome nativities are kept inside

a shed marked purgatory.

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