Not-So-Solemn Requiem
Funeral song for Marlon Brando to sing, at long last, to the immortal Grace Kelly…
“Everybody’s just dying to be heard…“
— KHYI radio, Plano, Texas, 4:00 PM EDT
(… followed at 4:04 PM by …
“I guess I just woke up
from my American dream.”)
Relevant theology…
“Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be….”
— Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love,
Harper Torchbooks, 1964, p. 324