When, finally, his body was transferred from the sofa in the library where he had written himself into an immortal fame, to the cemetery on Second Avenue, the obsequies became the funeral not merely of a man but of an age.
This quote reflects on the significance of a funeral as a representation of both an individual and the era they embodied.
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