"I’ve always thought cemeteries were like cities. There are streets, avenues—you’ve seen them, I think, Michael. There are blocks, too, and house numbers, slums and ghettos, middle-class sections and small palaces."
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Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place (1960), Chapter 2
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