Death
On July 8, 1943, Oakes was found murdered in his mansion, known as Westbourne, in Nassau. He had been battered to death, his corpse partially burned and strewn with feathers.
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“But, when nothing subsists from a distant past, after the death of others, after the destruction of objects, only the senses of smell and taste, weaker but more enduring, more intangible, more persistent, more faithful, continue for a long time, like souls, to remember, to wait, to hope, on the ruins of all the rest, to bring without flinching, on their nearly impalpable droplet, the immense edifice of memory.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“It is not love you will find:
You have no limbs
Crying for stillness, you have no mind
Trembling with seraphim,
You have no death to come.”
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“I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)