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Music for Insomniacs wherever you're listening to this show. Autumn is the season of death.

As we watch the foliage around us

wither, brown, and fall at our feet,

we are drawn to contemplate the end of things and what comes after.

And as the harvester's scythe reaps the crops, we are encouraged to consider the specter of the

grim reaper, and when even we may ourselves be collected. So it has always been, and so our fall holidays reflect this.

Sawin or Halloween, Diyad de los Mertos.

All reflect our fascination with death and survival beyond death in another world,

from which those who have passed may revisit us.

The ghost story is nothing new.

It can be traced back ages,

back even to the third millennium BCE,

and the earliest surviving work of great literature. The Epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian poem about

the storied life of an ancient king who at one point encounters the spirit of his dead friend,

the wild man Enkidu. This ghost is said to have risen quote unquote like a wind and Gilgamesh

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