GoogObits
Obituaries augmented by Google searches using hypertext enjambment. There is a lot to learn from the dead.
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GoogObits: Old (ELENA SLOUGH, 114 or 115)
People who live a super-long time occupy a special place in our culture. They become nearly freaks, pushing the edge of vampirism, lonely dancers of a mid-50s dance marathon.
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GoogObits: Friends
Sometimes I don’t feel safe in my own neighborhood. By “neighborhood”, I mean the United States of America, home of 3,000 dead agnates. Reading Alija Izetbegovic’s obituary can give you some pretty good insight into the source of my anxiety. He was a waffler, a Muslim, a good man.
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GoogObits: Company (Robert Kardashian, a Lawyer for O. J. Simpson, Dies at 59)
Sometimes, in the end, all we have for people to know us is the company we keep.
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Build (Joseph Wilson Builds His Obituary)
Joseph C. Wilson gets it.
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Passions (NPR Elia Kazan remembrance)
Time passes. Passions Fade.