Death, shit and blood represent a threat to God's perfection, just as dirty fingers threaten the perfection of a blank piece of paper.
So, I have been avoiding writing this post for the last week because no matter what I write here, I always seem to bring up my father's death, and well, I fear that you are thinking, "God she is so fucking depressing with all this death shit".
Christ this was literally life-or-death shit.
"Surrounded by death, noise, shit and concrete," Latife quickly realised he also needed to develop a thick skin.
Another villager, Nasir Sheikh, a carpenter, who lost both legs below the knee and one hand, added: "The smell was of death – urine, shit, sweat.
We learn how disillusioned and angry Iranians are with their leaders, so angry indeed that some of them utter what is considered, by the regime, as blasphemy and, in effect, punishable by death: "I shit on the whole of Hezbollah... and your distorted Islam and its ideology that you use to diminish a human being through torture".
The Museum of Sex, Death and Shit.
When you enter the hole, it's a new world one that smells like death and shit.
Within the first few minutes, I digested all that, foot chasing, hand-to-hand, death dealing shit until things slowed down.
At some point we have to accept death; that shit happens, and people die, and there isn't always much we can reasonably do about it.
Asked to respond to his brother's death, Jack said, "I didn't give a shit about Harry".
