On the front page of the New York Times yesterday, there was a picture of the Pope being carried through a crowd of people taking pictures of his dead body with digital cameras and picture phones. Girls were propped up on shoulders snapping shots at the dead Pope. His face looked painted but sunken in, and his mouth looked like it was sneering. It was an odd picture. A picture of people taking pictures of a dead Pope.
There is some culture, an Asian culture I think, that in their traditional beliefs say that mirrors steal a person's soul. I may be confusing that with something I thought I heard about cameras taking people's souls. But, apparently the Pope's soul was already gone, so maybe he doesn't have to worry. Whoever took the picture for the newspaper is responsible for the souls of all those people attempting to steal the soul of the Pope, though.
There was a herse in front of the convent yesterday. Dana told me a crazy story about a nun who was obsessed, Obe-sessed, with the Pope and did herself in when he died so they could be together in Heaven.
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