![]() ![]() Alternating chapters move back in time from the murder in hourly and two hourly increments. The corpses were surrendered to the weather and the earth, but they were still a man and wife, quietly resting flesh on flesh dead, but not departed yet.’From that moment forward, Being Dead becomes less about murder and more about death. Anyone who found them there, so wickedly disfigured, would nevertheless be bound to see that something of their love had survived the death of cells. ![]() For while his hand was touching her, curved round her shin, the couple seemed to have achieved that peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. Yet there remains something touching about the scene, with Joseph’s hand curving lightly around his wife’s leg, ‘quietly resting flesh on flesh dead, but not departed yet.’ ‘Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell just look at them that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. Their corpses lie undiscovered and rotting for a week, prey to sand crabs, flies, and gulls. Instead, they are battered to death by a thief with a chunk of granite. Celice and Joseph, in their mid 50s and married for more than 30 years, are returning to the seacoast where they met as students. Lying in the sand dunes of Baritone Bay are the bodies of a middle aged couple. ![]()
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