Tag: immortality
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Gulliver at Luggnagg — Learning about the immortal struldbrugs (abridged)
Image from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. (Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver). Illustration by Stephen Baghot de la Bere, 1904. Originally published in 1726. Bridgeman Images. Public domain. The Luggnaggians are a polite and generous people . . . they show themselves courteous to strangers. One day . .…
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Gilgamesh and medicine’s quest to conquer death
Anika Khan Karachi, Pakistan The warrior king Gilgamesh grasping a lion in his left hand, and a snake in his right. (Assyrian palace relief on display in the Louvre) “O Uta-napishti, what should I do and where should I go? A thief has taken hold of my [flesh!] For there in my bed-chamber Death…
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Unlocking the secrets of longevity: the potential of Cannonau
Samuele Cannas Pisa, Italy Bunch of Cannonau Grapes Ampélographie Viala et Vermorel “O gentlemen, the time of life is short! / To spend that shortness basely were too long, / If life did ride upon a dial’s point, / Still ending at the arrival of an hour.” – William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part…