The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

Charles Williams
About This Quote

This is a play on the common phrase, “Calling no-one at home,” and the fact that one could hear the ringing of a phone, yet no one was there to answer it. The idea suggests that events seemingly out of our control are actually controlled by something else. In this case, it is death or time that dictates what happens in life.

Source: War In Heaven

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