The Salty Dead
The Salty Dead is a short story by James Joyce.
Selected passages
It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned softly as he heard the salt falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
In the News
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External links
- [ Post] @ Twitter (12 March 2023)
- The Dead (Joyce short story @ Wikipedia
- "The Dead" by James Joyce - audiobook @ YouTube