Glenn used say reason can’t really imagine dead soon say, ‘I’ll dead,’ — Margaret Atwood, Year Flood

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Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul – it was a consequence of grammar.

Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

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