tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612281553233647994.post466326216252189253..comments2023-03-29T00:46:10.049-05:00Comments on Tomb Wrecks: Troubled Youthstephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948817367009902603noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612281553233647994.post-31832585965470856362010-03-06T17:49:20.153-06:002010-03-06T17:49:20.153-06:00It sounds like a pretty awful homage to a Christin...It sounds like a pretty awful homage to a Christina Rossetti poem.<br /><br />"REMEMBER me when I am gone away, <br />Gone far away into the silent land; <br />When you can no more hold me by the hand, <br />Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay. <br />Remember me when no more day by day <br />You tell me of our future that you plann'd: <br />Only remember me; you understand <br />It will be late to counsel then or pray. <br />Yet if you should forget me for a while <br />And afterwards remember, do not grieve:<br />For if the darkness and corruption leave <br />A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, <br />Better by far you should forget and smile <br />Than that you should remember and be sad."<br /><br />Which comes off less grumpy, as it's more 'I want you to remember the happy times with me, but if remembering me makes you sad, I'd rather you didn't remember, so you can be happy'. <br /><br />The version on that stone, however, definitely comes off petulantly.Aoifenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612281553233647994.post-81869756754625728812010-02-14T13:14:58.040-06:002010-02-14T13:14:58.040-06:00His mother must have watched one too many episodes...His mother must have watched one too many episodes of Little House on the Prairie. There's an epi where a mother dies (cause' it's LHotP) and leaves a bunch of orphans (again...it's LHotP) and there's a voice over where the dead mom reads this sappy poem (it's LHotP) word for word.chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612281553233647994.post-42181474419629023012010-02-14T04:56:57.454-06:002010-02-14T04:56:57.454-06:00I got the exact same impression.
What kind of pare...I got the exact same impression.<br />What kind of parents feel the need to put that on a tombstone for a five (no... I guess he was technically four) year old?<br /><br />I can completely understand the first half of it. What people wouldn't be smiling and happy around a kid of four, etc? Was this a passive aggressive remark to some asshole in the family who didn't like their kid or something?MykeLWulfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06948320610098873019noreply@blogger.com