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By climbing an incline of Bredforets, Ransoms,
Goffs, and of Dingley Falls judges, babies, generals,
and beloved wives, and by turning left at the statue of
Charles Bradford Dingley IV—a full figure in Quincy
pink granite by Daniel Chester French, the largest
sarcophagus in the cemetery, and the only one without a
body beneath it (the body, the bones by now, were
presumably somewhere near the Argonne)—finally and
a little breathless, Tracy Canopy joined her late spouse.
She unfolded a low canvas stool and sat down
beside a high sphere of flattened panels made of
crushed automobiles, an abstract rendering of Victory
over Death which the widow had commissioned from
the subsequently unjustly imprisoned sculptor Louie
Daytona.
At its base was a bronze plaque:
VINCENT TYLER CANOPY 1908–1969
HERE RESTS A LOVING MAN WHOSE
HEART WAS GIVEN FREELY TO HIS FRIENDS,
AND ART.
"Oh, Vincent, Vincent, I wish you were here," said
his wife to the side door of a maroon Buick. "More and