It is the Jewish custom to place a stone on a grave to help the dead to dissolve into dust and to show them that in that moment, someone remembers them, whether as air, or sparks or dust.
What connection can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together! Charles Dickens (in Bleak House )
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