They're different when they come back. Like any formative life experience, death changes you.

Mr. Ibis

Mr. Ibis: It's strange when they talk about 'African-Americans'. My colleagues and I never thought of ourselves as African. We were the People of the Nile.
Shadow: And then you settled in a town called Cairo. Seems appropriate.
Mr. Ibis: Eh... Chicken...Egg...

Coroners are a political appointment around here. His job is to kick the corpse. If it doesn't kick him back, he signs a death certificate.

Mr. Ibis

I translated all of Bach's cantatas into a database that wrote a program that segmented the notes into digital objects the way that Bach statistically attended to... But everything it created was mechanical, artificial. The real insight was in programming violations to predictable variations. I gave it permission to shatter the rules.

Son

This is grief. And yet, the rising notes of joy, shattering his own rules. Can you hear it? This is how men like me pray.

Father

American Gods Season 2 Episode 4 Quotes

I translated all of Bach's cantatas into a database that wrote a program that segmented the notes into digital objects the way that Bach statistically attended to... But everything it created was mechanical, artificial. The real insight was in programming violations to predictable variations. I gave it permission to shatter the rules.

Son

This is grief. And yet, the rising notes of joy, shattering his own rules. Can you hear it? This is how men like me pray.

Father