There were human cultures that taught an afterlife of the blessed on mountaintops or in clouds, in caverns or oases, but she could not recall any in which if you were very, very good when you died you went to the beach.
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“Do Buddhists believe in God, or not?” Ellie asked on their way to have dinner with the Abbot.
“Their position seems to be,” Vaygay replied dryly, “that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.”
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the size of a world
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can't get out
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spindly-legged, long-necked dappled
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thinning hair. Life was better up here
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newborn-puzzlement perhaps
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Shall brush my wing
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Humans are good, she knew, at discerning subtle patterns that are really there, but equally so at imagining them when they are altogether absent.
Rakhmat Dharmawanalıntı yaptı7 yıl önce
Humans are good, she knew, at discerning subtle patterns that are really there, but equally so at imagining them when they are altogether absent.