“The straight sunny tombstones looked sociable, fresh wreaths were laid on the breasts of the graves. You could almost see the dead sitting up holding their flowers, like invalids on a visiting-day, waiting to hear the music. Only the very new dead, under raw earth with no tombstones, lay flat in despair: on one grave a whole mass of flowers had wilted; no one had had the heart yet to put any more …” — Elizabeth Bowen
From TO THE NORTH, one of her ten novels that I am re-reading and finding in them much of Aickman and Ligottian Anti-Natalism, as well as amazing Bowenesque factors… my reviews of her novels being linked here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/11/27/elizabeth-bowens-novels/
The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews of Books 
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