When Lot is warned by God to leave Sodom and Gomorrah, as his family escapes his wife turns around, either to survey the destruction of these two cities or to actually return, and she is turned into a pillar of salt.
With this in mind, it makes it easier to think that he is dead, but he can't comprehend it yet. He's no longer an address, or a name-he's inert. The kiss is cold because he's dead?
When Lot is warned by God to leave Sodom and Gomorrah, as his family escapes his wife turns around, either to survey the destruction of these two cities or to actually return, and she is turned into a pillar of salt.
With this in mind, it makes it easier to think that he is dead, but he can't comprehend it yet. He's no longer an address, or a name-he's inert. The kiss is cold because he's dead?
It's a stretch, I know...