Thomas W. Clark

As he states "why are we so attached to this context of consciousness. Why, if experience continues anyway, is it so terribly important that it continue within this set of individualised characteristics, memories, and body? If we are no longer haunted by nothingness, then dying may seem more interchangeable the radical refreshment of subjectivity than its extinction" (Clark 8).

Though he denies it is his primary intention, Clark does admit that he is very close to statement that we have an eternal subjectivity that exists in all contexts of experience. He cites Shakespeare among those who like the author Anthony Burgess have made the skid of dreading the nothingness of goal.

However, he is making a leap of opinion regarding a subjectivity that jumps the gap between life and death as surely as Kierkegaard makes one regarding the existence of God. Further, Clark is

The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

Is sicklied o'er with the pale regulate of thought?

To grunt and sweat under a die life;

That makes calamity of so long life;

With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,

?For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

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