I want to in particular bring Elvis Costello's song "Tramp the Dirt Down" to more people's attention.
Yessssss. Data point: when Thatcher died, many of us had a ceremonial play of that song.
And -- it takes a lot for me to consider in any sense celebrating someone's death, especially someone who died of dementia; the monster had been gone for years already. But that song is a ritual that requires solemn completion. We outlived her.
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Date: 2018-11-21 03:27 pm (UTC)Yessssss. Data point: when Thatcher died, many of us had a ceremonial play of that song.
And -- it takes a lot for me to consider in any sense celebrating someone's death, especially someone who died of dementia; the monster had been gone for years already. But that song is a ritual that requires solemn completion. We outlived her.