When he’s laid to rest the 8th grandson of the first family of trillionaires wants to be laid out in a home away from home. He had a house built far away from the hustle and bustle of New York City, Tokyo, London, Singapore, and Hong Kong where he hides in flats with his royal family. This new house will be his tomb, built at home on a cliff close to the Red Sea. He believes Jesus himself should have been laid out in a tomb like this even though there was no electricity back then, in the least, and besides Jesus didn’t need a tomb for long. If the grandson was the patriarch of the family perhaps he would be more modest, more apt to know that Jesus had the sun follow him wherever he went. Jesus does not need riches. He is the light and hope to many.
Some people think the sun should follow them wherever they go so they surround themselves with shiny things and travel to sunny places to stay young forever. Others build glass tombs in the sun so masters of every craft can come from every corner of the world to see a prince’s mummified remains or cryogenic display of self preservation. Their response is nothing like a Dostoevsy epileptic fit as their eyes pass over the remains. Instead, they are counting the ways they were screwed out of a million dollars for this and a million for that. Prince’s spend a lot of their pocket change to display dead artists and now artists in every form want to see him dead. This is why they come to look, though their presence may be rewarded with gifts.
People in glass tombs can’t throw stones, or glass for that matter, but people in glass houses might throw both if artists were on their property having fits about being poor. Starving artists are likely to get upset when somebody shrouds themselves in glass to frame the beauty around them when they can’t frame beauty like the artist. In contrast, choosing to put misery on display by the hand of your fortune is like throwing stones in stone houses. If you gained the fortune on your own with hard work you have nothing else to lose. People without talent need to display beauty to hide their misery while people with talent need to display their misery to find happiness. Neither the second-hand rich nor the starving artist will throw stones in a glass house because they can’t both be happy when comparing their legacies nor live properly to tell about it.
Francis Erich McElroy 