Jacob Lawrence, "Funeral Sermon" (1946)
Jacob Lawrence, Funeral Sermon (1946)
Can a Game Be Literature?

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January 17, 2013:

For Victor Hugo to be buried, the ground of the Pantheon had to first be specially unconsecrated.

He left this beautiful will: "I leave fifty thousand francs to the poor. I desire to be carried to the cemetery in one of their hearses. I refuse the prayers of all churches. I ask for prayer from all living souls. I believe in God."

Impossible to imagine in our world, which despises poets, and hates the poor for reminding the rich how they got that way.