[hardy-l] Life Imitating Art?

[Bill Morgan]

Thanks, Betty for noting this macabre conjunction of Hardy and the day's
news.  For me the most recent such convergence came when I read about the
scandal at Burr Oak Cemetery here in Illinois, where workers have apparently
removed bodies from older graves and re-sold the burial plots.  If you care
to know more, follow this link:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532100,00.html?test=latestnews

 

The Hardy connection, of course, was to "The Levelled Churchyard" and
perhaps even more to "In the Cemetery" from "Satires of Circumstance":

 

'. . . But all their children were laid therein

At different times, like sprats in a tin.

 

'And then the main drain had to cross,

And we moved the lot some nights ago,

And packed them away in the general foss

With hundreds more.  But their folks don't know,

And as well cry over a new-laid drain

As anything else, to ease your pain!'

 

Bill Morgan

 

 

 

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