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On the dead.

It is not so easy to please the dead.
— Pär Lagerkvist, Barabbas, trans. Alan Blair, with a forward by Lucien Maury, and with a letter by André Gide (New York: Random House, 1951), 91.

Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), 165.