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Death
 

"the continuity of our spiritual existence after death" 1

"it is not often Death is told so clearly to fuck off" 10

"a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death" 17

"Death is a debt to nature due" 26

Dominus Blicero, 30

most frequent word at seances, 32

"Death's antechamber" 40

"invulnerable Death" 40

Lord of the Night, 48-49

"try to tickle me" 60

"They would deny him the pervisity of being in love with his death. . ." 143

"time and space on their side have no meaning, all is together" 153

"The dead are as real as the living." 153

"The real movement is not from death to any rebirth. It is from death to death-transfigured." 166

"Death the impersonator" 167

culture of, 176

"rationalized forms of death" 230

"death with its very good chances of being Too Late, and a host of other souls feeling themselves, even now, Rocketlike, driving out toward the stone-blue lights of the Vacuum under a Control they cannot quite name ... the illumination out here is surprisingly mild [...] a feeling of population and invisible force, [...] glimpses into another order of being...." 239

"whose German-scientist mind would be battered by Death to only the most brute reflexes" 268

"The city [...] is a necropolis of church spires and weathercocks" 269

"feelings about shit tied to putrefaction and death" 276

"Death came like the American Army, and liberated them spiritually." 296

"everyone is in complete agreement about Death" 299

"ancient rune that stands for the yew tree, or Death" 302

"Christian Europe was always death" 317

tribal v. Christian, 318

"[suicide] embraces all the Deviations in one single act" 319

"North is Death's region" 322

Bleicherode = "death" 322

blicker = bleached, 322

Death = bleaching, blankness, 322

Angel of Death, 151, 328

Evil Hour (white woman), 374, 439

"this invisible kingdom had kept on, in the darkness outside" 432

culture of, 445

"You are either alone absolutely, alone with your own death, or you take part in the larger enterprise, and you share in the deaths of others" 454

Greta lying with corpse, 483

"'She's supposed to be dead." [...] "'W-well you're supposed to be a movie director.'" " "'Same thing.' [...] 'Same problems of control.'" 494

North, 524

Angel, 328

"Death has been the source of Their power [...] we die only because They want us to" 539

"They are only pretending Death is Their servant--faith in Death as the master of us all" 540

"whatever Käthe Kollwitz saw that brought her lean Death down to hump Its women from behind" 578

in German films, 579

"northern journeys to final ice" 589

northern Germany was territory of the dead in prehistoric times, 612

"In this latest War, death was. . .a collaborator" 616

"traffic from the Other Side" 624

Frau Death, 625

"tuneless whistling of busy Death" 628

"The fly, who was not dead" 632

Lilith, Queen of the Night, 649

Night of the Other, 649

and shit, 688

"the farther north, the plainer things grow" 692

religion and, 701

"[belief] in mortality [...] that bitterest of freedoms" 704

"not till the War came and Death appeared across the ring, [...] taller, more beautifully muscled, less waste motion than he'd ever expected" 704

the World before men ("It is our mission to promote death"), 720

Analysis and, 722

"Fathers are carriers of the virus of Death, and sons are the infected" 723

Deathkingdom, 723

"the object of life is to. . .die a weird death" 742

"the Great Irreversible" 745

deep beauty of, 746

Zhlubb's imagined, 756

whitening, 759

"bright angel of death" 760