Road to Elsewhere, Excerpt #33: Bones, Bones, and More Bones Under the Streets of Paris

Special memento mori edition!

In the mid 1800s in Paris, a generation of proto-commuters stepped around M. Manet outside the Gare Austerlitz, and M. Monet inside. They long ago reached their final destination. Monet and Manet are at the vanishing point as well, however immortal their paintings.

Likewise, my Irish friend Seamus and I plunged into death, Paris-style, like Hamlet and Ho…