Tue
09-Mar-2004

highgate cemetery

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Matt and I took the day off today and visited Highgate Cemetery! It's an amazing place, like a living incarnation of a Dungeons and Dragons cemetery ... all toppled stone angels, romantic Victorians sepulchres, ivy grown catacombs, trees, grass, and nature generally claiming back the dead from the stones and structures of the living. It is clearly managed and allowed to become artfully overgrown, but it is so beautiful and wild at times. You can clamber in between the paths, all over forgotten graves almost completely overgrown by vegetation.

This is also the resting place of Karl Marx, who is buried under a highly amusing huge thick column with an enormous sculpture of his fat head on it. Some good quotes on the column: 'The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it!'