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What . The cemetery owner is that I have talked to. No that's an issue. I mean obviously if you're planning out a place like like Green Springs where you have you know enough property for literally many many many thousands of graves if you develop that that of the other place it will be a future issue but one that they're not dealing with now. So they know it's an issue but they haven't really figured out what they're going to do about it. I have heard some talk about possible use of graves but I don't really think many people are seriously considering it. So yes at some time those graves like the rural cemeteries and you know other places in urban areas particularly those in the cemetery grounds will be filled up. And it brings up the interesting question that it's not a cemetery anymore perhaps it really does become that reforested area where that metal land or whatever . And people really do use it as a. As a as a park or as a place to reconnect with with with nature. So yes it is an issue that the people are aware of which you know these national cemeteries the
people who are establishing them are bootstrapping news operations. They are literally inventing these ideas as they go. You know how do you dig. How do you dig a grave and how does a backhoe work and how do you dig a grave in the winter time in northern New York and so they are trying to figure out how to do it. And so something like what's going to happen in 200 300 400 years is not it is not a pressing concern but something certainly on their minds . Yes. Funny you should ask that because we have somebody here who can tell you tell you about that. Judith you want to say a few words about what's happening in Massachusetts.
Collection
Harvard Book Store
Series
WGBH Forum Network
Program
Pornografia
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/15-125q814n67
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Translator Danuta Borchardt discusses her translation of Witold Gombrowicz's novel Pornografia.Witold Gombrowicz wrote Pornografia after leaving his native Poland for Argentina in 1939 and then watching from afar as the German invasion destroyed his country. Translated for the first time into English from the original Polish by award-winning translator Danuta Borchardt, Pornografia is one of Gombrowicz's highest regarded works--a richly imagined tale of violence and carnality set in wartime Poland. In the midst of the German occupation, two aging intellectuals travel to a farm in the countryside, looking for a respite from the hellish scene in Warsaw. They quickly grow bored of their bucolic surroundings--that is, until they are hypnotized by a pair of country youths who have grown up alongside each other at the farm.The older men are determined to orchestrate a tryst between the two teenagers, but they are soon distracted by a string of violent developments, including an order from the underground movement for the men to assassinate a rogue resistance captain who has sought refuge with them. The erotic games are put on hold--until the two dissolute intellectuals find a way to involve their pawns in the murderous plot.
Date
2009-11-02
Topics
Literature
Subjects
Art & Architecture; Culture & Identity
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:02:18
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Distributor: WGBH
Speaker2: Borchardt, Danuta
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WGBH
Identifier: 704332a086be9a04e527fd26cb7aa2fd7f563df0 (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
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Duration: 00:00:00
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Chicago: “Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Pornografia,” 2009-11-02, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 25, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-125q814n67.
MLA: “Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Pornografia.” 2009-11-02. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 25, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-125q814n67>.
APA: Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Pornografia. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-125q814n67