According to Reuters, a loan company in Latvia is agreeing to give loans to customers in exchange for their "immortal souls"...
From the report:
Mirosiichenko said his company would not employ debt collectors to get its money back if people refused to repay, and promised no physical violence. Signatories only have to give their first name and do not show any documents.
"If they don't give it back, what can you do? They won't have a soul, that's all,"...
Mirosiichenko said his company was basically trusting people to repay the small amounts they borrowed, which has so far been up to 250 lats ($500) for between 1 and 90 days at a hefty interest rate.
Love the Blake print that illustrates this oddity! What would William have thought of loans against the soul?
ReplyDeleteWell, you're the Blake scholar, not I, but perhaps something along the lines of "Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."
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