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Monday, September 15, 2003

Monday September 15, 2003

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:15 pm

All the King's Horses

Johnny Cash's funeral was today.

Today is also the feast day of the Protestant saint Robert Penn Warren.

Here is how Stanley Kubrick might
make a memorial stone for Cash.

"He is
the outlaw
the people
love,
the hero
dressed
in black."

Nancy
Springer,

The
Hex Witch
of Seldom

The title of this entry, "All the King's Horses," is of course a slightly altered version of the title of Robert Penn Warren's famous novel.  For the connection with horses, see my entries of

September 12, 2003, and of

September 5, 2002.

See also 

The Journey Westward and

Into the West,

as well as the beginning of Mark Helprin's novel

Winter's Tale:

"There was a white horse, on a quiet winter morning when snow covered the streets gently…." 

1 Comment

  1. It’s not a white horse … but it’s a Pale one.

    Comment by oOMisfitOo — Monday, September 15, 2003 @ 5:19 pm

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