"...by the door, he put the heavy simpering figure of an angel.
...it had come from Carrara in Italy, and it held a
stone lily delicately in one hand.
The other hand was lifted in benediction,
it was poised clumsily upon the ball of one phthisic foot,
and its stupid white face wore a smile of soft stone idiocy."
From Look Homeward, Angel
Forward to William Oliver Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe’s Father.
The angel now stands in Oakdale Cemetery in Hendersonville, NC
