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lil  ·  4118 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Myth Aborning -a letter and poem from my good friend Ralph Stallard that died today

RIP Ralph Stallard.

As it turns out I was at a funeral this morning, on my birthday of all things - a close friend's father. Even though it's brilliant summer, I couldn't stop thinking of the last lines of James Joyce's story "The Dead":

    His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling . . . upon all the living and the dead.