Jun 29, 2005 19:56
In the Abbé's novel, she explained, the notion was put forth by one of the characters that the human soul might be found in the hair and fingernails. It is a well-known fact that both continue to grow after death, and this astonishing fact could be attributed to a residue of the divine spark. She quoted the novel from memory, he was dismayed to see.
The spirit, in its longing to return to the spiritual realm, ceaselessly flows, like electricity, from the core of the body to the outer regions. The soul, in other words, might at certain times be lodged in a person's coiffure.
- The idea, she said with a smile, has been very popular with fashionable ladies.
- And so has the Abbé, I've heard.
death,
reading,
religion