THE FAMOUS LAST WORDS
OF O. HENRY

He was lying motionless on his deathbed and nobody around knew if he was still alive. "I know," said one of the group, "touch his feet --- no one ever died with warm feet."

O. Henry slowly raised his head from the pillow, commented "Joan of Arc did," and promptly expired.

--- Adam Mars-Jones
Review of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
London Review of Books, 21 January 2016