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One by one they were all becoming shades.

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“One by one they were all becoming shades.”

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Gabriel’s thoughts widen from one dead young man to the mortality of everyone around him, preparing the story’s final meditation on memory and the living and dead.

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“The Dead,” in Dubliners, Project Gutenberg #2814. The line belongs to Gabriel Conroy’s interior reflection after Gretta tells him about Michael Furey; it is fictional free-indirect narration.

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