Alphonse Maria Mucha The Judgement of Paris painting

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upon it in gold.
The ambulance, with the bier resting in it, awaiting the widows' permission to depart.
The last farewells of women.
The graveyard. Male mourners rushing to lift the bier on their shoulders trample Salahuddin's foot, ripping off a segment of the nail on his big toe.
Among the mourners, an estranged old friend of Changez's, here in spite of double pneumonia; -- and another old gentleman, weeping copiously, who will die himself the very next day; -- and all sorts, the walking records of a dead
The grave. Salahuddin climbs down into it, stands at the head end, the gravedigger at the foot. Changez Chamchawala is lowered down. _The weight of my father's head, lying in my hand. I laid it down; to rest_.
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.