[AGL] memorial & wake for Clark Santos

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Artie Osborne (of Red River Motors) had it right twice. He didn't go to the 
memorial because he didn't want to be preached at. The main speaker there, 
Bill Bell, an old friend of Clark's, had gotten religion as the result of 
some unidentified incident which had greatly frightened him, he said. So for 
most of the memorial he read bible passages at us interspersed by the claim 
that we were all sorta kinda Xians already, we just weren't quite there yet. 
When I told Artie at the wake that Bell had intimated that Clark, that 
complete pagan, had somehow never really broken away from his childhood 
faith and was, if you looked closely, one of the saved, said Artie 
reflectively, "Oh horseshit!"

The other memorialists, Charlie Loving, Ed Guinn, Dave Moriaty and Ed 
Alexander, all apparently unsaved, told Clark stories. Mary Jane Ford and 
Pepe Plowman sang.

The wake at Ed Alexander's estate was sumptuous. A brass band played and the 
mourners ate great amounts of barbecue and fixings.