An Abridged Life - Nabokov and Cemeteries

"...and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome." 

Vladimir Nabokov - Laughter in the Dark

Image and Story: Death, Bergman, Levi, Reveille

"In the brutal nights we used to dream

Dense violent dreams,

Dreamed with soul and body:

To return; to eat; to tell the story.

Until the dawn command

Sounded brief, low

'Wstawac'

And the heart cracked in the breast."

~ Primo Levi Reveille (excerpt)