Auden wrote 'the dead we miss are easier/to talk to than the living'. But this isn't right, or else it's right as a deliberate hyper-correctness, that we
miss the dead when we direct words at them. That's not talking; it's
monologuing; of course they cannot reply. And its not the dead to whom we talk; it's ourselves, of course, of course.
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