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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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Misérables: ‘Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall<br />

I, after my death? No.’)<br />

26. It was as if they were sunk in sleep<br />

and found themselves in troubled<br />

dreams— either fleeing somewhere, or<br />

powerlessly pursuing others, or<br />

delivering blows in brawls, or<br />

themselves suffering blows, or falling<br />

from a high place, or sailing thru the air<br />

without wings. Sometimes it even<br />

seems as if they are being murdered<br />

although no one pursues them, or as if<br />

they themselves are murdering their<br />

neighbors since they are sullied by<br />

their blood. (James Joyce, Ulysses: ‘History ...<br />

is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.’)<br />

27. <strong>The</strong>n the moment comes when<br />

those who have endured all this<br />

awaken, no longer to see all those<br />

troubles— for they are naught. (Th 2)<br />

Such is the way <strong>of</strong> those who have cast<br />

<strong>of</strong>f ignorance like sleep and consider it<br />

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