In memory of Staige D. Blackford:
“…they [the clergy] believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly; for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
“Stately, thin Thomas Jefferson came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed…. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
— Introibo ad altare Dei.
Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely:
— Come up, Staige! Come up, you fearful editor!”
With apologies to the University of Virginia, to the Virginia Quarterly Review, and to James Joyce.
“Man, it’s long…
It’s a long, long, long road.”
See also memorials to George Axelrod and Leon Uris, both of whom died at the summer solstice, June 21.
twurkin13
ur site looks empty. props