"He gave me his last name," the weeping mother noted, cherishing every detail of her son's goodbye, each specific of his existence, as an ultimate gift of mercy.
Which is odd, considering that she sheds them three times in the first 20 minutes, not, as Ms. Ramsay wryly noted, weeping over the body but not invisibly either.
"Smiling, weeping, laughing, playful," he notes, "in their many faces, gardens are just like people".
I was almost weeping - with every note, I felt that it could be my last.
He then warns: World, take note, should Ghalib keep weeping, you'll see only a wilderness where you built your terraced cities, your marble palaces.
Note: the client was openly weeping when she said this.
You're already imagining the PBS camera trained on someone holding that dolphin and weeping for joy as an appraiser speaks: "Note the breakage pattern in the flippers.
It was disconcerting at first to hear the music adapted to the words "Alzai le flebili voci al Signor" (an Italian version of the psalm "I raised my weeping cries to the Lord," attributed in the program notes to Lorenzo da Ponte).
It takes a second to note the emotional punch line in his shot of a young man weeping on the shoulder of an older man in a sombrero.
In other notes she left, Caroline Ferriday identified the ancestry of a weeping willow in the orchard.
