They had no children, and they were getting to be up in years—“ageable” as Took described it.

Obviously, he [Edmund Husserl] assumes that adumbrations exist in consciousness and that they are real parts of the stream of conscious experiences. Otherwise he should have inferred from the thought-experiment of the destruction of the world that in this case consciousness would exist together with a chaotic stream of adumbrations.

In fact, Gilgamesh's instructions are still-valid directions from the guru to the chela.

a pulmonically initiated plosive