June 18, 2004
Flash tour of the Cimetière du Père Lachaise.
Pictures of the cemetary. [link courtesy of some monkey. Ought to look familiar to some.
Incidentally, Roman Paris.
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Thank you, PF. Though I don't like funerals, and tend not to be very sentimental, there is something so touching about funerary art. Especially, the Victorian statues, eternally mourning. if that guy with the rose was offering it to me, I might even think about being buried instead of cast to the winds. And the Monument to the Dead is really beautiful. And, why was Wolof hiding his light under a sepulcher? hanks to him, as well.
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*t*hanks.
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). You have to appreciate how much work went into making that site.
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For those of you who like virtual tours of cemeteries, here's one of the beautiful Abney Park Cemetery - a lovely, wild, overgrown place in my neighbourhood ("a well-known haven for Dissidents", apparently...). Also, Highgate Cemetery, from City of Shadows, which has lots of good links for those of us who revel in the dark, intricate parts of a city.
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Forgot to say - fabulous post, PF.
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This is awesome; I've been there a bunch of times.
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Approach with coffin.
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--'Tis grave, my lord. --Aye, 'tis. He's very near his final nesting place. --The baird's go' a fooot in the hoome of doome, or th' woomb of tomb, or th' wound of loond! Alack a'day! Could have sword I had a punchline in mind when I started that.