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OCR: Cros fascination with Mars was further bound up with his belief in reincar nation ua the Red Planet Flammarion actually based the tragic protagonist his semi-autobiographical novel Uranie on Cros, hero who awakes immortality in auter space It is in the context of Flammarion' I's oft-stated connection between immortality, and life ua other worlds that we may piece together several of Van Gagh's puzzling statements on the issue of life-after-death in his letters of the late 1880s In the summerof 1888 he raises what he calls "the eternal question ","Is the whale of life visible to us or isn't it rather that this side of death we See only one hemisphere?" He contemplates the idea rat immortality in astronomical terms which he grounds ir the form f map: For AL own part, declare I know nothing w ...