It is told by the dead man's brother; the two had been very close - friends as well as brothers.
Was the book as "dead as God"?
The bleachers are as dead as Neidermeyer.
But my friends are dead as well".
He spoke often of a "cohort of phantoms" that haunted him, of seeing his friends as the walking dead, and feeling "like steam".
The woman, identified by friends as Sallie Holmes, had been dead for several days, possibly since Thursday, the police and neighbors said.
I suppose you could view deleting dead friends as simply routine updating of the sort people have long done with their hard-copy address books.
On these occasions, masks usually recognizable as dead chieftains, relatives, friends, or even foes are worn or exhibited.
(One socialite, Kate Fearing Strong, known to her friends as Puss, came with a dead cat, stuffed, on her head, and the tails of other dead cats trailing from her dress).
In Michael's poems, a lot of things are described as dead: a cigar, hair, friends.
