“I heard a Fly buzz — when I died —
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air —
Between the Heaves of Storm”
465: I heard a Fly buzz — when I died —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
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Source: Altered Carbon
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Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
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Bat out of Hell (1977), Bat out of Hell (song)
Context: Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun
All torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike
And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell
And the last thing I see is my heart,
Still beating,
Breaking out of my body
And flying away
Like a bat out of Hell.
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Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980