One can understand that Ferrante has no interest in adding her privacy to the novelistic pyre.
The pyre is already being prepared, and they can see it smoldering in the distance.
Were those tears only of gratitude as Joe watched this strange pyre of his family's old life?
The government says that a pyre's output is equivalent only to that produced by two bonfire nights.
In the village of North Nibley, some parents bemoan the proximity of a livestock pyre to the primary school.
"In effect a pyre has been built to burn this body, " she said.
The princess, herself one of Cambodia's most admired classical dancers, returned to light the funeral pyre on July 18.
Lying near the bottom of the canvas, amid the conflagration, the bones suggest that this is a sacrificial pyre.
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He had said that his coffin should be open, so he would have his face to the sun as his pyre was set ablaze.
His widow, Queen Monique, and the son in whose favour he abdicated, King Norodom Sihamoni, then lit the funeral pyre at the 15-storey-high purpose-built crematorium.
In India, electric crematoriums, which are cheaper than the elaborate ritual of the funeral pyre, are becoming increasingly popular, while in China ash-scattering-at-sea is becoming all the rage.
Led by India's Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, numerous political leaders from across north India queued up to lay floral wreathes around the funeral pyre before it was lit.
Just as the pyre was lit, a ceremonial squad of Punjab Police guards fired a volley of shots and buglers sounded The Last Post in a final salute to the departed leader.
Though outlawed in India for nearly two centuries, some Hindu communities practiced the ritual of sati -- in which a widowed Hindu woman would throw herself, or be thrown, on her husband's funeral pyre.
For them, the growth question, the environment, pollution, the fate of the great globe itself, had become a cause of religious intensity, and the optimistic Mr Simon was a heretic to be put to the pyre.
His funeral pyre, lit under gloomy skies in a lonely corner of his country, resembled a small garbage heap -- a makeshift pile of truck tires, soiled mattresses, a solitary chair and a few other of his meager possessions.
Subsequently, all three brothers converge on the family home, not only arranging the funeral and burning their father's possessions in a garden pyre, but remaining in his house for months after their filial obligations are dispatched, sampling an aimless liberation.
Both the composition and the color of the images are stirringly beautiful, but they feel loaded with symbolism and sentiment: an emaciated man swaying with exhaustion during an interminable roll call appears to be experiencing a kind of transcendent ecstasy, like Joan of Arc on the pyre.
Tens of thousands of people come here every year to visit a cave where Abraham may have been born and a fishpond marking the site of the pyre where he was almost burned up by Nimrod, except that God transformed the fire into water and the coals into fish.
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