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  1. @surdfish

    Val Kilmer is such a great actor wrestling an anachronism into the present day with his performance.

    #Tombstone

  2. Auf dem Boothill Graveyard in #Tombstone, #Arizona liegen Revolverhelden begraben. Die Grabinschriften sind makaber. Ein Bsp für einen angeblich versehentlich Gehängten: “Er hatte Recht, wir lagen falsch, wir haben in aufgehängt und nun ist er weg”.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boothi

  3. The grave looks old but it is one of the younger things in the vicinity of Abó. Nearby, ruins of pueblos occupied by the Tanoans in the 11th Century mingle with ruins of pueblos and Spanish missions from the 15th and 17th Centuries.

    #grave #tombstone #abo #nm #newmexico #ruralamerica

  4. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another: the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances, that are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons; who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were born and that they died. They put me in mind of several persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems, who have sounding names given them, for no other reason but that they may be killed, and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-03-30), “Thoughts in Westminster Abbey,” The Spectator, No. 26

    More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80135…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #graveyard #cemetery #birth #death #impact #legacy #meaningoflife #memorial #obscurity #remembrance #tombstone #history

  5. A quotation from Victor Hugo

    He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,
    He lived, and when he lost his angel, died.
    It happened calmly, on its own,
    The way night comes when day is done.
     
    [Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange,
    Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n’eut plus son ange,
    La chose simplement d’elle-même arriva,
    Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s’en va.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Les Misérables, Part 5 “Jean Valjean,” Book 9 “Supreme Shadow, Surpreme Dawn,” ch. 6 (5.9.6) (1862) [tr. Wilbour/Fahnestock/MacAfee (1987)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/78309/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #lesmiserables #jeanvaljean #death #dying #epitaph #grave #memorial #tombstone