Joyce's Epiphany "The Dead" from Dubliners WOW!!. Beautiful

From The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor, for Monday Jan. 6, 2014:


Joyce's Dubliners ends with a story set at a party for the Feast of the Epiphany, "The Dead," and that story ends: "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."

Joyce's Ulysses Re Love, Mortality & Death

Writer Chris Hedges says we should read Ulysses because it shows us that "the most heroic and important actions of human existence do not take place on a battlefield or on great public stages . . . It is love, and the reverence for the sacred that deep love inspires, that alone allows us to face the specter of our own mortality and cherish and hold fast to life in the face of death."