I wonder why it is? We like to suffer, we like to cry

We complicate things to the afterlife

I do not understand what happens to us

I even feel bad
I want to be with her

She likes that fool

in the quotation from passage, connie willis states that literature is a way for authors from the past to communicate with readers of today. we can read their stories, books, and other texts to learn lessons about life. willis refers to these lessons as messages “from beyond the grave.” willis has a favorable viewpoint about the timelessness of literature.