...tomb, then, not only as rooms in their houses but also as places in their minds, for as Locke argues: "Our minds represent to us those tombs to which we...inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away."165 But refreshed by memory, the dead linger. A precursor to the heavenly mansion, the Georgian...

...there'.125 In a sad simile that seems to dissolve the self entirely, Locke compares our aging minds to 'those tombs, to which we are approaching; where though...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds, are laid in fading colours; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear'.12 An early journal entry,...

...remains nothing to be seen. Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth, often die before ns; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are fast approaching; where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time,...

...memories fade and die as we grow older and in fact face our own death, Locke uses figurative language: "our Minds represent to us those Tombs, to which we are approaching" (EII.X-5: 151). It would be utter nonsense to say that our minds serve as proxies for the tombs we...