I want no stone nor gilded urn
\nfor I reside beyond retrieve.
\nNot the dead but the quick yearn.
\nNot I but my fellows grieve.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
My latest covid reading project took me back to Montaigne’s <\/i>Essais, which I taught repeatedly over the course of my career, this time for “pleasure”. An early passage in chapter III brought to mind my own “Epitaph\u201d, written years ago in my dark, middle period in Berkeley.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Montaigne was citing no less than Plato, albeit in Latin (Phaedrus, LXIV)<\/i><\/p>\n Le soin des fun\u00e9railles, le choix de la s\u00e9pulture, la pompe des obs\u00e8ques servent plus \u00e0 consoler les vivants qu\u2019\u00e0 secourir les morts\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n curatio funeris, conditio sepultur\u00e6, pompa exequiarum, magis sunt uiuorum solatia, quam subsidia mortuorum<\/p>\n To wit: The pomp and circumstances of a funeral console the living rather than the dead<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I want no stone nor gilded urn for I reside beyond retrieve. Not the dead but the quick yearn. Not I but my fellows grieve. * My latest covid reading project took me back to Montaigne’s Essais, which I taught repeatedly over the course of my career, this time for “pleasure”. An early passage in … <\/p>\n