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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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...one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Please explain the following quotations:

1: We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
2: It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
  

Top answer

1. Imagine something (a stone) falling on your head. Not pleasant.

  • 1.
  • Imagine something (a stone) falling on your head.
  • Not pleasant.
  • Even worse if the whole sky falls down upon you.
  • 2.
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1. Imagine something (a stone) falling on your head. Not pleasant. Even worse if the whole sky falls down upon you.

2. I can't sing if I am dead.
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1. We must continue to go on living, even if we have experienced a great deal of adversity.
2. It is impossible to think objectively about your own death, and still have enough mental energy left over to guide you through the singing of a melody. Thoughts about your own death are so absorbing that it's impossible for anything else to occupy your thoughts at the same time. Everything
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CalifJim1. We must continue to go on living, even if we have experienced a great deal of adversity.
2. It is impossible to think objectively about your own death, and still have enough mental energy left over to guide you through the singing of a melody. Thoughts about your own death are so absorbing that it's impossible for anything else to occupy your thoug
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Marius Hancu1. Imagine something (a stone) falling on your head. Not pleasant. Even worse if the whole sky falls down upon you.

2. I can't sing if I am dead.

Thank you, Marius.

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