The greeting from the previous column has not lasted long, and here we are again revitalized. They're going to allow me, though, a third column dedicated to my necrophilous hobbies to end this form of trilogy over cemeteries, and move on to more stimulating things. We talked about the phrases that are usually placed on the portals of cemeteries, by the hand of Iñaki Segurola, but there is a subgenre in the funeral literature, which we have not yet worked on, of epitaph or funerals. This defines the funeral Ambrose Bierce in his book The Devil's Dictionary: “Grave inscription attesting to the retroactivity of the virtues acquired by death.”
Mariana Enríquez picks up in her book our book Indalezio Bizkondo Bilintxena, in unified Spanish, because that is how it is in the tomb of the bard, but it is so classic, even in comparison with the agony of the deceased, that it is not worth bringing here (see, they have an excuse to visit the cemetery of Polloe). Other writers were more imaginative and left more memorable phrases for eternity. Dorothy Parker, for example: “Forgive so much dust.” O Charles Bukowski: “Don’t try.” Emily Dickinson: “They’ve called me.” And what Miguel Mihura wanted: “I said that the doctor wasn’t worth much.”
But we're going to play creative, we're going to play to make the necrowriter, we're going to guess some eternal phrases that can appear in the best stanzas. “It was time!”, the deceased prisoner can write. “Five more minutes,” holes. “I’m a gintonic, please,” all dry, thirst. “Forgive, but who are you?”, which has not lost the ability to surprise. “This isn’t that bad,” easy to shape. “At least I’m resting,” they weren’t particularly active. Or, "You are the ones in a grave, not me," the crazy poets. And maybe the most appropriate thing for a poor yet skeptical word like me. “No comments.” Bearing in mind, in any case, what the epitaph of Enrique Jardiel Poncel says: “If you want the highest praise, kill yourself.”
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