Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“there falls along with him a whole wing of the palace of our life.”
- Source
- Memories and Portraits
- Date
- 1887
Meaning of “there falls along with him a whole wing…”
The death of a close friend is pictured as structural loss inside the survivor’s own life because shared memory, recognition and companionship disappear with that person.
Where does it come from?
Memories and Portraits; Project Gutenberg #381. The surrounding passage describes friendship, mortality and memory; the architectural metaphor is kept as grief writing rather than literal psychology.
