Strange people

[ctoner]

One of the characters in David Foster Wallace's absolutely mindblowing "Infinite Jest," theorized that the grim reaper, the dark passenger culling you to the grave, always appears in the form of your next life's mother. When you get born again, (as in out-of-the-womb ) as an entirely new being, you are born unto her. Unconsciously, she spends her

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[simonbob]

We took my mother on a picnic. In the hasty scramble to find things she might like, I grabbed a jar of mint jelly. Turns out it's her favourite spreadable condiment ever. She's probably eating it straight off the spoon right now.

Also, if you combine this Oedipus-complex theory with the Hindu concept of reincarnation, then you get people being taken off the mortal coil by images of dogs and tapeworms and such. I am not looking forward to death, but at least I know it'll be mind-blowing.