'"Did the biblical Lazarus dream, locked in the clayey cave? Did he rememer his life in death – all of it, every moment? Did he remember the mornings... waking up with a sunbeam moving across his face like a smile?

And once he was resurrected, did he remember being dead, or did he just enter another dream of another life? Did he have to disremember his previous life and start from scratch, like an immigrant?”

— Aleksandar Hemon

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