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 House Bardo Pieta Where the Wild things are














Abraham Lincoln crying














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














Abraham Lincoln weeping - Lincoln in the Bardo














Abraham Lincoln in the 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 esteemed 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.














George Saunders Monthy Python Silly Walks














William Willie Wallace Lincoln














Lincoln in the Bardo drawing on a paper bag














Dear boy, he said, I will come again. That is a promise.














Then father touched his head to mine.














Bardo Pieta Abraham and Willie Lincoln














combing the grass














The gentleman sobbed














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














Lincoln in the Bardo - Poof














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.














His eyes were bluish-brown. His nose rather long.














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 Bardo the Bridge














There was Bent-Over, there was Shocked, this was Half-boy.














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 beautiful all of this was, how engineered for our 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














The darkies














It was a monentuos occasion and they must not spoil it.














Attempted to recall some particular incident involving the boy














Lincoln crying














Is the new arrival...still with us?














And were crying out most piteously as the wheels turned and turned














The train shifted a bit on its tracks














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














Well, I don't feel so good today, he said.














In some bright place














If you tell me to go I will


















and it was still hot.