[…] and that rancid, raw-boned parson, Gillespie—how the plague did they pick him up?—one of the mutes told Bob 'twas he.

They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been.

The Second Gentleman is the husband of the Vice President of the United States.

Different postmortem aspects of the individual are mentioned in ritual texts, so that it is unclear how they relate to one another: the ka (what leaves the body when death occurs), the ba (the personality of the individual), and the akh (a glorified bodily form).