Originally printed in “The Gentleman’s Alphabet Book”
Necrophilia:
My darling is pallid and cold.
My darling will never grow old.
And when she is rotten,
I will have forgotten–
Another young belle will have tolled.
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[sub]Copyright 1972 by Harvey Kornberg and Donald Hall[/sub]
Athelas’s MO is to troll and run with his bigotry. Keep it vague enough so he doesn’t get pinned down of course. But I’m aware, and frankly sick of it.
A retired cop friend of mine told me they could indeed be charged with the attempted sexual assault of a corpse, and sure enough at my link in my earlier post, you can find it on Page 9.
Good thing, as I was considering having all my holes filled in with concrete, or maybe with hot asphalt, upon my death, and making a note to that effect my gravestone epitaph
But since the law will protect me, I can go with my original epitaph,
There was a case here a decade ago where a local newspaper published a young woman’s obituary. As it happened the lady in question was not only very much alive, but healthy. After some investigation two things came out:
a) The newspapers had been relying on trust for publishing obituaries. After that newspapers required a death certificate and proof that the person sending the publication was related to the deceased.
b) The one who paid for the obituary was a an ex, to whom the young woman had angrily told “I am dead to you*”. It followed.
*Something is lost in the translation from Spanish.
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In the sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Really, you don’t have to be intimate friends to make observations like that. You just have to train the people around you to expect unusual responses from you. We all think some very odd thoughts, and if YOU say a few, some other people will have also THOUGHT it but not SAID it, and you will FIND new friends.
And the way to keep out of trouble is to maintain some level of situational awareness so you don’t go over the top with VIPs or lots of strangers around. And even more importantly, don’t attempt real hard to defend whatever nonsense you just spouted. Explain it, yes, but don’t be dogmatic about it. “Eh, I’m probably wrong.”, is gonna cool most people right off if they get a little hot. And some them will start kind of an “Explain yourself” game with you, where you have to try and twist logic to explain why you said something, you end up in some really amusing conversations, for both parties. The point is that you find some friends, you avoid making enemies, and you have a lot more fun along the way.
I feel lucky that these kind of comments are expected from me IRL. I’ve got people around me, including my boss and co-workers and relatives to expect VERY ODD (to them, anyway) responses from me. My sister often introduces me to her friends with, “This is my brother Boyo Jim. You’ll have to excuse him. He was born without a filter.”
Really, so long as you’re obviously not mean spirited, people will accept a lot more divergence of opinion than you would think. I wish more people were willing to try it.
These guys performed a public service. Now regular necrophilics who like to have sex with freshly dead corpses, have someone to look down on.
Seriously, like 99%+ of other humans, the concept of having sex with a corpse is totally gross. The thought of digging someone up buried a week is so beyond the pale that it’s just incomprehensible.