Warren Ellis on Twitter today:

Obituaries: letters to people who had no idea, in their lifetimes, that they were loved or admired by anyone. Late mail from the living.

Gorgeous.  In that curmudgeonly Ellis way.

If so,

Elegies: letters to people who had no idea, in their lifetimes, that they were loved or admired by anyone.  Mail misaddressed and delivered in time to  make the reader look around and take stock.  Perhaps, he thinks, I am loved or admired by someone.  I should write a letter of my own.  I should call.  I should be better than I am.  I should be living.