Gabrielsson's tale is that of a man all but estranged from his brother and father, who as soon as he was dead swooped down to loot the corpse.

Gabrielsson认为Larsson和他的弟弟和父亲关系疏远，很少往来，可是拉森刚去世，他们马上就冲过来抢夺他的遗产。

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And then, I'm going to skip down a little bit: Though she never again called back any image of the dead man to dress up, pose, talk to and make answer, neither would she lose a new compassion for the cul-de-sac he'd tried to find a way out of, for the enigma his efforts had created.

接下来，我会跳过一些内容往下说：,虽然她从没有想起过，那个死人穿衣、摆弄姿势、,说话和回答问题时的样子，她也不会失去对他的同情，对他尝试摆脱,无路可走的困境所付出的，谜团一般的努力。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The blind man and his guide move away down the narrow streets of the small, dead town.

NEWYORKER: See the Other Side

Not least because in the dead man's pudgy hands he finds a gold cross, ornately worked and made to hang upside down in the way St Peter was said to have been crucified.

ECONOMIST: New fiction