2. What is the significance of the heartbeat that everyone hears during the passage into death? What happens when it can no longer be heard?
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Brief History of the Dead--Question 2
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I was thinking it must have something to do with the sound of passing on - going on a trip - the click-clack of a train on tracks - the sound of journey. It appears others hear it as they hear someone new arriving in the city.
Posted 7 months ago by JoanfromNewJersey #
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I was thinking a metronome that keeps count of time. Joan I like your thought. The booming of the crossing into the city. The blind guy heard it distinctly--maybe more than any others because of heightened sense of hearing. Everyone hears it but he was more accutely aware I thought.
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I thought that it was the heartbeat of the person who remembered the dead and that once that person was gone themselves, then the heartbeat stopped.
Posted 7 months ago by WillowandWindismom #
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my thoughts were that those that heard it strongest, were those that had the most "living" remembering them..... inotherwords, it diminshed as people died, who would remember them.... the fainter it got, the less they "remembered" of their old life, and the closer they were to leaving the city.....
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While you have a heartbeat you are living. the heartbeat was the sustainer of life. I like the idea of the heartbeat being those that remember you--In the end it was very loud but there was only one person left who remembered those that were in the city of the dead. When the heartbeat stopped the city started to disappear.
Posted 7 months ago by Cat talk rules #
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