The Bardo Pietas














Bardo Pieta - Sugar Sculpture - Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders














I mistook him for a solidity. Here I am.














Willie Lincoln Where the Wild things are Bardo Pieta














The night wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another. Four score and seven minutes ago I entered this ghastly place.














The White Stone House Where the Wild things are Bardo Pieta














Abraham Lincoln crying














I remember him. Again. Who he was. I had forgotten somewhat already.














Abraham Lincoln weeping - Lincoln in the Bardo














Abraham Lincoln inthe Bardo death mask














His panicked eyes would steal up and catch mine as if to say is there really nothing Papa you can do?














Yet there was no joy in the evening for the mechanically smiling hostess and her husband.














Lincoln had engaged the steemed caterer C. Heerdt of New York.














Hans Vollman Sheep-Dumpling














Let the wild rumpus start! He moved stiffly, all elbows and knees.














It was me done that, I thought.














It was not quite comme il faut.














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William Wallace Lincoln (December 21, 1850 – February 20, 1862) was the third son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln.














Lincoln in the Bardo drawing on a paper bag














You were a joy, he said.














Dear father crying that was hard to see














Bardo Pieta Abraham and Willie Lincoln














combing the grass














The gentleman sobbed








Abraham Lincoln in the Bardo - Jaws














Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand; another view














This increase of height would render him quite thin, literally pencil-thin in places, tall as the tallest of our pines.














08 Bardo Pieta - Fat Sculpture - Drawing Joost Witte inspired by the novel Lincoln in the Bardo written by George Saunders














Bardo Pieta














Poof_Lincoln in the Bardo Pieta_George Saunders














Poof Bardo Pieta














William Willie Wallace Lincoln - seance spooky














I could do that








03 Bardo Pieta - Ice Sculpture - Drawing inspired by Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders














The Association of Lincoln Presenters are First Person Living Historians who join together to learn and share the Life and History of Abraham Lincol














What a pleasure it was being in there.














Soap, pomade, pork, coffeem smoke, milk, incense, leather, serendipitous mass co-habitation, linen, sweat, barley.














The nose heavy. His eyes dark grey.














06 Bardo Pieta - Marble Sculpture - Drawing Joost Witte inspired by the novel Lincoln in the Bardo written by George Saunders














Oh, thank you for the new coat rack!














En cas de malheur. Merci pour le crochet. Brigitte Bardot & Abraham Lincoln














Brigitte Bardot the Bridge














Soon it all seemed normal to us, and we joked about it, making up names for each, depending on how it looked.














05 Bardo Pieta - Pur Foam Sculpture - Drawing Joost Witte inspired by the novel Lincoln in the Bardo written by George Saunders














This Reminds Me of a Little Joke by an unknown cartoonist Harper's Weekly September 17, 1864.














Only then did I realize how unspeakably betautiful all of this was, how engineerd for pleasure,














Bardo Pieta - Sand Sculpture - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders














10 Bardo Pieta - Horse Sculpture - Drawing Joost Witte inspired by the novel Lincoln in the Bardo written by George Saunders














Ape Lincoln - 11 Bardo Pieta - Granite Sculpture - Drawing Joost Witte inspired by the novel Lincoln in the Bardo written by George Saunders














07 Bardo Pieta - Wood Sculpture - Drawing Joost Witte inspired by the novel Lincoln in the Bardo written by George Saunders














Maybe we had to many parties.














Black beasts














First time we fiited him for a suit














Abraham Lincoln sobbing and weeping














There has historically been some confusion around this issue.














Crushed and re-crushed them














giving off the smell bruning pork














These excursions served to carry my roots ever deeper into the vicorous soil of truth














He began remembering














Respendent in a new mode of being














Now I understand


















and it was still hot.