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If you need a quiet place to read and write and, furthermore, have that cabin-fevered need to get out of the house to do it, forget coffee shops. Graveyards are where it's at. Not the really recent sections, where people are liable to be actually grieving or leaving fake flowers; obviously you don't want to settle in on one of those. But old graves are ideal.
First, descendants have long since stopped caring, if there are even any left. Second, other people generally avoid the place, so you can hunker down unobtrusively and nobody will tap you on the shoulder to ask if you're having any luck connecting to the wi-fi. Third, they're photogenic. My three favorite tombs have, respectively, an old, spreading shade tree with gnarled limbs and trunk; a conveniently comfortable hollow in the ground ringed by cypress; and a marble neoclassical folly that gives good shelter in light rain.
There's no piped music. There's no blender going at odd intervals to make you jump and lose your train of thought. There're no jackasses on cellphones. There is markedly more bird shit, of course, but between businessmen with Bluetooths and getting shat on, which is more annoying, really?
So, yeah. Graveyards are great.
First, descendants have long since stopped caring, if there are even any left. Second, other people generally avoid the place, so you can hunker down unobtrusively and nobody will tap you on the shoulder to ask if you're having any luck connecting to the wi-fi. Third, they're photogenic. My three favorite tombs have, respectively, an old, spreading shade tree with gnarled limbs and trunk; a conveniently comfortable hollow in the ground ringed by cypress; and a marble neoclassical folly that gives good shelter in light rain.
There's no piped music. There's no blender going at odd intervals to make you jump and lose your train of thought. There're no jackasses on cellphones. There is markedly more bird shit, of course, but between businessmen with Bluetooths and getting shat on, which is more annoying, really?
So, yeah. Graveyards are great.