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Years ago, when I thought about the possibility of having to wear reading glasses, I often wondered how I would react. Would I resist? Would I feel "old?" Would I be frustrated? Now that the time has crept up on me and I find I do, in fact, need to wear readers on occasion, I realize I'm perfectly fine with it. I just have to make sure I have pairs planted around the house so I don't have to go searching for them when I need them!
The Merry Cemetery (Romanian: Cimitirul Vesel pronounced [t͡ʃimiˈtirul ˈvesel]) is a cemetery in the village of Săpânța, Maramureş county, Romania. It is famous for its colourful tombstones with naïve paintings describing, in an original and poetic manner, the people who are buried there as well as scenes from their lives. The Merry Cemetery became an open-air museum and a national tourist attraction.
The unusual feature of this cemetery is that it diverges from the prevalent belief, culturally shared within European societies – a belief that views death as something indelibly solemn. Connections with the local Dacian culture have been made, a culture whose philosophical tenets presumably vouched for the immortality of the soul and the belief that death was a moment filled with joy and anticipation for a better life (see also Zalmoxianism).
In 2017 there was published the first book, which is a collection of the epithaps from the Merry Cemetery, by young author Roxana Mihalcea, who gathered the epithaps in the volume Crucile de la Săpânța [1] The indisputable merit of this work is the gathering of several hundred legible epitaphs from the Sapanta crosses. The author's texts enrich each chapter with in-depth commentary, accessible to the contemporary public, especially to the urban, less familiar with the rites of rural life in the past. So, the funerary lyrics from Sapanta get a sense beyond the disappeared world it evokes, giving readers valuable information about the everyday life of the village.
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Covers of forgotten 1940s genre crime novels with titles like' This Man is Death', 'Daughters of Shame’ and, shown here, from my own collection, 'Don’t Scare Easy' are bringing unexpected high prices at auction. A collection valued around £4,000 fetched £26,829 recently.
Mainly published by the Kaye brothers - Bernard & Alfred - between 1949 and 1954, the books were judged obscene at the Old Bailey - the Kayes were jailed and two of their authors heavily fined.
Leonard Percy Gard, the artist responsible for many of these lurid covers was acquitted when he proved he did them before the books were even written.
Gard drew for Hank Jansen - one of the genre’s most famous authors - this was a pseudonym for Steve Francis and almost certainly Ace Capelli.
Called wall-to-wall sleaze’ and ‘a cross between the superb and the crass’, the covers are still evocative of this post-war style - though readers might be disappointed to find that the stuff inside is tamer than Mills & Boon now.