In Memory of Dulcie (1993-2000) and Spike the Elder (1984-1997)
And with gratitude for Spike Jr., who makes the unbearable bearable
Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city, lying alone
Far down among the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The City in the Sea”