“By her own request there will be no funeral, no service, no one is invited, and she will be cremated, probably tomorrow. Neither condolences nor floral offerings (or any other kind) will be accepted. If you want to do a good deed, kiss an enemy. She hasn’t gone anywhere. She ‘is that which you see before you; begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error.’”
Walter Miller Jr., author of A Canticle for Leibowitz (each discussed previously), announcing the death of his wife of “fifty years, two months, and five days.” He attributed the quote at the end to the Chinese Zen Buddhist Huang-Po.
