His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
他听见雪在宇宙间轻轻飘落,轻轻飘落,仿佛最终的归宿降临在所有生者与死者身上;他的灵魂也缓缓沉入迷蒙。
— James Joyce · Dubliners (1914) · The Dead —