He walked up to the high roof where the beacon was lit at night to jog the gods’ amnesia. - Tanith Lee

A tomb contains the dead, who are properly immobile and unspeaking. Though Masrians leave lamps for the ghosts, nobody expects they will be lighted.

Is it the regency you want, or me?"
"The regency. You, sweetheart, are the worthless dross that comes with it.

He had been too near the hard facts of religions as a child to find it soothing.