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rebnessFor someone who is morbidly (ha) afraid of death - and I mean truly, awake-at-4am-thinking-it-over afraid - I sure do like my cemeteries. In fact, the more afraid of death I grow, the more I love cemeteries. They have to be old, though, and the pain far removed from them. I don't like new tombs at all, but old ones are so peaceful and beautiful.
I'm going to start a series in my LJ and post some photos of my favourite graveyards. Thus far, I have Pere-Lachaise and Montmarte (Paris), La Tour de Carol (French/Spanish border), that awesome old one in Boston, Lafayette, St. Louis No.1 and the one I can't remember (New Orleans), San Michele (Venice), various Greek and English cemeteries and, um, a deeply saddening one in Sarajevo. Exciting and weird times!
Jim Morrison, we salute you. And steal from your grave.
This one's too sad and shiny and poor Edith. ;_;
Heloise and Abelard. This is a terrible photo but let me show you why...
Seriously. Renovations, you're necessary but confound me. >:|
Herp derp
Modigliani and my icon hunny, his lover Jeanne Hebuterne <3
The monuments in the WWII/Holocaust memorial are really hard to even look at.
And now Oscar Wilde.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. I can't really judge as yes, I have kissed that grave myself before...
And perhaps Oscar would find it all rather splendid...
...But I judge this clown so hard. What kind of person writes in textspeak on a memorial? (Probaby the same asshat who wrote 'Bon Jovi' on the front).
I'm going to start a series in my LJ and post some photos of my favourite graveyards. Thus far, I have Pere-Lachaise and Montmarte (Paris), La Tour de Carol (French/Spanish border), that awesome old one in Boston, Lafayette, St. Louis No.1 and the one I can't remember (New Orleans), San Michele (Venice), various Greek and English cemeteries and, um, a deeply saddening one in Sarajevo. Exciting and weird times!
Jim Morrison, we salute you. And steal from your grave.
This one's too sad and shiny and poor Edith. ;_;
Heloise and Abelard. This is a terrible photo but let me show you why...
Seriously. Renovations, you're necessary but confound me. >:|
Herp derp
Modigliani and my icon hunny, his lover Jeanne Hebuterne <3
The monuments in the WWII/Holocaust memorial are really hard to even look at.
And now Oscar Wilde.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. I can't really judge as yes, I have kissed that grave myself before...
And perhaps Oscar would find it all rather splendid...
...But I judge this clown so hard. What kind of person writes in textspeak on a memorial? (Probaby the same asshat who wrote 'Bon Jovi' on the front).
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Date: 2011-02-15 11:45 pm (UTC)What is it about kisssing Oscar Wilde's tomb? A friend and I went to see it, but neither of us knew why people kiss the grave. Is it lucky or something ? :)
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Date: 2011-02-15 11:49 pm (UTC)I honestly don't know where the Wilde tradition came from. I first saw that grave in 2000 and there were only really lipstick marks on the back. It's absolutely covered in lipstick and graffiti these days and it's pretty intrusive.
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Date: 2011-02-15 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-16 12:00 am (UTC)See how a part of his statue is rather...ahem, shiny? Women are supposed to rub it to wish for a lover.
The first time I saw someone doing that, I just stared!
Not that I immediately went over and did the same.
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Date: 2011-02-16 12:13 am (UTC)We went to Montparnasse cemetery with a friend (we end up in a cemetery everytime we're too late to get into the catacombes :p) and there's Man Ray grave. I wanted to leave him a naked picture of me, since he was quite fond of naked women photographs while alive and he made so many beautiful ones, but I do not tend to carry around such items with me, so I left a tiny crappy 1cm square pic from my business card of an empty corridor with not one naked woman in sight :( loose! :D
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Date: 2011-02-16 12:16 am (UTC)I didn't know Man Ray was buried there -- that was an awesome idea, though. XD