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Today, pictures from valued commenter Rand Careaga.
Visiting the city for the first time since Tony Blair was PM, I thought to visit the grave of Karl Marx, and while there I took a turn around the grounds, looking in on the graves of Leslie Stephen, Carl Mayer (Weimar-era screenwriter), Douglas Adams and sundry other luminaries, as well as countless obscure and forgotten. Among the latter I noted a preponderance of genteel circumlocutions for, you know, not living anymore (“went to sleep,” “gathered unto God,” et cetera), so it was refreshing to see that Patrick Caulfield’s grave made no, uh, bones about his state.
Taken on 2019-07-29 00:00:00
Highgate Cemetery
Among the monuments to the lesser-known I noted a preponderance of genteel circumlocutions for, you know, not living anymore (“went to sleep,” “gathered unto God,” et cetera), so it was refreshing to see that Patrick Caulfield’s grave made no, uh, bones about his state.
Taken on 2019-07-29 00:00:00
Highgate Cemetery
Grave of a publisher—“remaindered, we might say.”
Taken on 2019-07-29 00:00:00
Highgate Cemetery
“Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read Hegel anyway.”
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JPL
This might not be an appropriate thing to say, but what a fun group of photos.
Amir Khalid
When my time comes, I hope I remember not to take death too seriously. Do those euphemisms for “dead” by any chance include “in post-life”?
Mary G
Wow, cool.
OzarkHillbilly
I love grave yards, the older the better.
A Ghost To Most
@OzarkHillbilly:
After spending too many vacation days trying to find something to do while my mother took notes from headstones in cemeteries, I have no desire to visit a cemetery ever again. What a waste of land and stone.
YMMV.
Another Scott
@A Ghost To Most: I respect the feeling, and feel that way most of the time myself. However, the Kerepesi Cemetary in Budapest is an amazing place. There are horrid, huge, guady monuments, and amazingly beautiful tasteful sculptures, and horribly overgrown old sections that show how transient such human constructions are. It’s an amazing place.
Photos on Google Maps.
Cheers,
Scott.
A Ghost To Most
Before we understood the fundamental selfishness inherent in the christian fascist movement, my wife and I had a standing joke that when my brother’s wife died, she would have a headstone that said simply “Mine”.
J R in WV
I too like old graveyards. Cemeteries, the commercial types, not so much.
Key West had a great old graveyard, on Solaris Hill, the highest point on the island at 19 feet above mean sea level. Our favorite stone was, in 1971, still legible, and contained a biography of the dead guy, who apparently lived a very long time, dying at around 90, “a good citizen for 35 years”, a pirate before that. Probably no longer legible as it was fading away.
Origuy
Douglas Adams is also buried in Highgate. Apparently it’s a thing to leave pens at his grave.