ciphergoth comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dclayh 01 February 2010 10:50:42PM 17 points [-]

That is not dead which can eternal lie,/ And with strange aeons even Death may die.

—H.P. Lovecraft, clearly talking about cryonic preservation

Comment author: ciphergoth 03 February 2010 08:38:23AM 3 points [-]

Once out of nature I shall never take

My bodily form from any natural thing,

But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Of hammered gold and gold enamelling...

Yeats, on what he'll do when no longer "fastened to a dying animal".