dead, n.Definitions

The Dead is a class whose merits it is human to exaggerate.

The Dead has a presence.

The Dead is never dead to us, until we have forgotten them..

The Dead is the unalterable such that whatever reshapes the past performs an act of resurrection.

The Dead is praised, but he frequently has no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

The Dead is not to be slandered — if you slander a dead man, you stab him in the grave

The Dead is somehow more real than the living. The longer you think about it, the more it seems that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead.

The Dead is ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades later and are found at the edge of the moraine, a few polished bones and a pair of hobnailed boots.