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This passage describes the narrator’s view of Viraf’s father on his deathbed, a sight that the narrator finds traumatizing. Though Viraf’s father is relatively young (not nearly as old as the narrator’s grandma Mamaiji), he seems to be in an advanced state of decline, which shocks the narrator. The sensory details in the room—the darkness, the smell of sickness and medicine—make the image stand out to the narrator in the most vivid way possible.
In this moment, the narrator slowly realizes that his own father is getting older, and that his loved ones could be taken from him at any…