Meditations: Greece Past and Present :: Reflections on Odessa :: Conversations: Scholars and Farm Workers
I stopped. A funeral was going by. A pauper's burial. Only a woman and a child followed. I asked an old man looking on who it was.
A neighbor who sold fruit and vegetables and couldn't pay the rent.
He looked up puzzled. How could they afford a coffin, a burial site and a stone if he couldn't put food on the table when he was alive?