If it is true, as Saint Augustine says, that the dead aren't absent but merely invisible, then somewhere round about, as I write about her and you read about her, Hilary Mantel is present.
For some people, being dead is only a relative condition.
Mantel managed simultaneously to project genuine warmth and gratitude, and enormous skepticism.
I would have liked to have got to know her better, but maybe, as Augustine suggests, I still can.
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