Eilidh Harris

“He was much changed and grown even thinner since Pyotr Ivanovich had last seen him, but, as is always the case with the dead, his face was handsomer and above all more dignified than than when he was alive.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”
― Clifford Geertz

“Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

“He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.”
― Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution