Tuesday, 27 February 2024

A Winter Afternoon in Brompton Cemetery; 10 January 2024

 

I’ve strolled through cemeteries around the world, like everyone who is deathly afraid of death and dying (actually, which are we more afraid of —death or dying?) who wants to see his fear's lair, to confirm that this place is calm, quiet, that it has been made for people after all, for a rest…. A place for getting used to it as it were. Isn’t it strange, Gaustine once said to me, it’s always other people who are dying, but we ourselves never do.

Georgi Gospodinov - Time Shelter









7 comments:

  1. You have some amazing cemeteries in London, there are nothing like them out side. The monuments are stunning

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    1. Thanks Bill, Brompton is pretty impressive, especially when the light is as wonderful as it was on this day.

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  2. Bohemian cemetary in Chicago, has some impressive statues. There is a mother and child in front of the crematorium, a strange coincidence.

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    1. I've just checked it out - that is a very impressive bronze!

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  3. I just visited Brompton for the first time on the 20th! Lovely cemetery! It was my second of the 7! First was Highgate which is succcch a lovely garden cemetery!

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    1. Both fantastic cemeteries but my favourite is, and always has been, Kensal Green. I hope you are planning to get round all 7? You must do Brookwood as well, that is also pretty spectacular.

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  4. Anselmo kipiaca

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