Challenge
No More...
'And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.' (Revelation 21.1) I'd miss the sea, for sure, in the afterlife (if I were to take this verse literally). If there were an afterlife (regardless of your own personal faith, just presume for the moment that there is), what one thing (or collective of things) would you miss most from this life if it/they was/were absent for all eternity? Explain why, if you can, concisely (maximum of 100 words for this challenge!)
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No More...Books!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote:
OF writing many books there is no end;
And I who have written much in prose and verse
For others' uses, will write now for mine...
In her first line she was quoting the much-wearied author of Ecclesiastes (12:12), who went on to complain:
…and much study is an affliction of the flesh.
Well, I won’t (and don’t) miss examinations!
But Books…
An afterlife devoid of airy public libraries, dusty old bookshops, dog-eared paperbacks, Shakespeare’s First Folio, the Gutenberg Bible, illuminated manuscripts, fragile papyri, the Rosetta Stone - and even Kindles! - doesn’t bear thinking about.