The Third Man - Fake Mourners and Lovers

I am not a religious man and always feel a little impatient with the fuss that surrounds death... As we drove away I noticed Martins never looked behind - it's nearly always the fake mourners and the fake lovers who take that last look, who wait waiving on platforms, instead of clearing quickly out, not looking back. Is it perhaps that they love themselves so much and want to keep themselves in the sight of others, even of the dead? - p.22 (Penguin Books, 1950)

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