“I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.”
José Canseco (1964) Cuban-American baseball player
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“There is no culture without a tomb and no tomb without a culture; in the end the tomb is the first and only cultural symbol. The above-ground tomb does not have to be invented. It is the pile of stones in which the victim of the unanimous stoning is buried. It is the first pyramid.”
Source: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (1978), p. 83.
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