Desire for mortality involves craving ordinary physical sensations and mundane burdens.

Evidence

One of the angels, Damiel (Bruno Ganz), wants to become human. He longs to be bound to earth and eat earthly food. He dreams of coming home at the end of the working day to feed his cat; of getting his fingers blackened by newsprint. “At last to guess,” he says, “instead of always knowing.” — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 360

Categorization

• XREF: XREF connects to Mantel’s fascination with the texture of ordinary materiality. — connects to: Being alive feels like existing within a nightmare. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 651
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 360

Broader Connections

• Being alive feels like existing within a nightmare. #expands (0.75) — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 651