No Casket, No Flowers

Thomas Lynch

  • Committed to the Cleansing Flame: The Development of Cremation in 19th-Century England by Brian Parsons
    Spire, 328 pp, £34.95, November 2005, ISBN 1 904965 04 0

Mostly I remember the quick pearlescent cloud, the puff of white it made in the rush of current, when I dumped Hughey’s ashes in the water. And watching what remained of him disappear downstream, I thought of the masked man riding off at the end of that cowboy show I watched as a boy: ‘A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty Hi-Yo Silver! The Lone Ranger!’

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[*] Norton, 576 pp., $29.95, January, 0 393 05131 5.