[78-L] Billy Murray At Holy Rood Cemetery---Reply From Authorities

[John Maeder]

Well, I'm an atheist, so I have no dog in the religious hunt.  However, it is more logical as an atheist for me to visit someone's mortal remains than worry about their soul's destination.  Let us remove ourselves from any pre-conceived or indoctrinated notions for a moment here.  Let's just imagine that in one year, five years, ten years, fifty years, one hundred years -- whatever -- that a couple happen to stop by the Holy Rood cemetery for a romantic walk, or to appreciatre the beauty or history of the place and encounter Billy's memorial that explains who he was and what he did. Perhaps you and Al do not ponder such things but I think it has been going on for a while in human history:

In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,

Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws

The only shadow that the Desert knows:

"I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,

"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows

"The wonders of my hand." The City's gone,

Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose

The site of this forgotten Babylon.

We wonder, and some Hunter may express

Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness

Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,

He meets some fragments huge, and stops to guess

What powerful but unrecorded race

Once dwelt in that annihilated place.

This isn't so much for people who know about Billy Murray, but more for those that don't.  It is our duty as possesors of knowledge of Billy Murray to share it, and I think a marker in a cemetery is as fitting as anything.

John


> From: busterdog at mac.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:40:08 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Billy Murray At	Holy	Rood	Cemetery---Reply	From	Authorities
> 
> Betcha there's an unspoken religious element in play here too.   
> Graveyards are about religion. And big bucks for the grief-exploiters  
> who run them.
> 
> Who cares where a person's dust resides?  There's way more Billy in  
> any crappy old cylinder or disc of his than in some random piece of  
> earth someplace.
> 
> On Oct 28, 2009, at 8:30 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>  
> wrote:
> 
> > Right! Play his records, put a plaque up, enjoy what he did. Who  
> > cares where
> > he's buried? I truly do not understand this constant obsession with  
> > visiting
> > graves. Anyone's. Why would you go to visit Edith Piaf's grave or  
> > Mozart's or
> > Michael Jackson's? Is it going to bring you happiness? No, enjoying  
> > what they
> > left you is going to bring you happiness. Is visiting a grave going  
> > to bring
> > the person back to life? Talk about a waste of time and energy.
> > If I sound a bit rabid about this subject, let's just say I'm  
> > letting go of an
> > irritation that has bothered me for decades.
> >
> > Yes, I stand behind every word of this and my previous diatribe, and  
> > I know we
> > haven't heard the last on the subject. I find worshipping the dead  
> > disgusting.
> > Sue me.
> >
> > dl
> >
> > John Maeder wrote:
> >> But it's not about dead people, necrophilia, or cemeteries .. this  
> >> is about Billy Murray.
> >>
> >>> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:14:07 -0500
> >>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> >>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> >>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Billy Murray At Holy Rood Cemetery---Reply     
> >>> From    Authorities
> >>>
> >>> Al, you and I seem to be in a minority here. As for the rest of you
> >>> necrophiliacs, here's a cemetery full of famous people..knock  
> >>> yourselves out.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Westwood_Village_Memorial_Park_Cemetery
> >>>
> >>> (Wonder if they're also buried alphabetically?)
> >>>
> >>> dl
> >>>
> >>> simmonssomer wrote:
> >>>> I'm not at all interested where Billy Murray is buried or how!!!!!
> >>>> Is this the business of this group?
> >>>> Cemetery research?
> >>>> Plot number. Row number, Date of interment,
> >>>> Name of artist. Type style.
> >>>> Upper or Lower case.(That's a joke son)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Al Simmons
> >>>>
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