loving the dead

[from The Secret Names of Women © 1998 by Lynne Barrett, p85:]


---"You always love the dead the most," Grandma says, "because they can never hurt you anymore."
---There. That's the kind of amazing thing Grandma says. Morbid Victorian Catholic stuff. ...


[Hey, peeps. A taste of Lynne Barrett this morning. (Well, it's because i'm sick (with a cough/cold thing) and busy these days. 'It' being the implied paucity of blog entries recently, or perhaps their dark leanings.)

Hmmm, 'Morbid Victorian Catholic' might be a good rock band name, too. MVC. I don't know.

And who's even better (or worse) to love than the dead are the fictional, because they can't really ever hurt you at all.

Okay, folks; move toward the light. :-) ]