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The above tableau, from this morning's
New York Times obituary page,
suggests the following meditations:
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1. "Mickey Mouse will see you dead." — Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise |
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2. "Free!" |
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3. "I graduated in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona…." |
These three meditations are
consistent with the fable of the
mice and the lion in The Lion,
The Witch, and the Wardrobe
and with the speech of
Aslan at the conclusion of
The Narnia Chronicles:
"The term is over: the holidays
have begun. The dream is
ended: this is the morning."
The rather depressing
"Death Notices" box
that has attracted
Charlton Heston's gaze
in the online obituaries
pictured above might
be replaced as follows:
The Heston classic pictured
above is, let us recall,
based on a book titled
Ben-Hur: A Tale of
the Christ.
"I know this man!"
— Charlton Heston
Time of this entry:
2:12:35.