A smart ex-girlfriend of mine always started her matutinal Times reading with the obituaries. At the time, this struck me as peculiar: what kind of spiritual necrophilia induced a vivacious, with-it young woman to evince such retrograde interest? Wasn't there enough news from the quick to supersede that about the dead?Well, I was wrong. Obituaries are easily as fascinating as anything else in the morning paper. An ob…
SOURCE: John Simon at 09:29PM on June 24, 2013