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Re: [OM] IMG: the old Jewish cemetery in Wrocław

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: the old Jewish cemetery in Wrocław
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 16:46:02 -0500
I felt like such a bad boy, and it felt so good. <g>

--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal

On Jan 8, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Chris Barker wrote:

> I don't know about the irony, Bob, but I like those sentiments, and the 
> cemetery joint . . .
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 7 Jan 14, at 16:25, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Joan and I have an agreement. (Me and Joan? <g>) The one who goes first is 
>> cremated, and the survivor takes the ashes to scatter someplace the survivor 
>> wants to go, not the deceased. For a long time I was sure I would be 
>> scattered in Switzerland. Now, I'm not so sure. For the moment, Joan is 
>> going to the standing stones at Lochbuie, on the Isle of Mull.
>> 
>> As for visiting graves, I never do it, unless they are the graves of 
>> strangers located in some picturesque place. Puttered around a lot of 
>> cemeteries in Scotland. Have wandered through more than a few here in Maine. 
>> And, of course, if you go to Boston, cemetery wandering is required.
>> 
>> My paternal grandfather is buried where the afternoon shadow of Thomas 
>> Wolfe's angel (as in Look Homeward Angel) falls across his grave. He was a 
>> tyrant, and a giant in my life. He died while I was in the army. When I got 
>> home, I walked the few miles to the cemetery where he is buried and sat and 
>> smoked a joint on his grave. More or less made my peace with him that day. 
>> He was dead and I wasn't, and there was a monumental weight removed from my 
>> psyche.
>> 
>> Does it count as irony that the shadow of Wolfe's angel falls across my 
>> grandfather's grave when, as a defense attorney, he destroyed the 
>> credibility of Thomas Wolfe as a witness during a murder trial in Asheville, 
>> NC? (Wolfe is not buried beneath the angel. It was sculpted by Wolfe's 
>> father, a stonecutter in Asheville.)

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