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Writing from the bedroom where he spent his final moments, I recall the custom, practiced in certain countries, which consists in closing the room where a member of the family has died. Things are left exactly as they are. No one will enter that room again. I suppose that after a generation, the house, no matter how large, would no longer have space for the surviving members. But there is something about the custom that attracts me.