we yet discourse in Plato's Den, and are but embryon[ic] philosophers."
This book justifies its lack of assertiveness about certain matters by claiming that "a dialogue between two infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next...we yet discourse in Plato's Den, and are but embryon[ic] philosophers." At the end of "TlÃ¶n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," a story heavily influenced by this book, the narrator declares his intention to continually revise an "uncertain Quevedian translation (which I do not intend to publish)" of it. This book compares the shortness of our memory to how "darkness and light divide the course of time." This is the text most heavily analyzed in the discussion of its author in the first chapter of W. (*) G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn. This text claims that "Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us," since "man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." This work forms a diptych with a text on the quincunx in art, The Garden of Cyrus, and it includes many of the mystical ideas presented in its author's Religio Medici. For 10 points, name this tract on Roman funerary customs, by Thomas Browne. 
This book justifies its lack of assertiveness about certain matters by claiming that "a dialogue between two infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next...
Urn-Burial [or Hydriotaphia; or A Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk]