The Confessions Of Frances Godwin (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
(April–June 1997) Paul’s memorial service, held on Shakespeare’s birthday, was everything a memorial service should be. If you’re part of a small liberal arts college, you don’t need religion. You don’t need a church. The college will provide all the things the people used to expect from a church: a sense of community, an active interest in the large questions about the meaning and purpose of human life, and even a memorial service when you die. It was a lot of work. I sorted out photos for a slide show, and one of Paul’s students put it on a computer. I even included one of Paul and his first wife, Elaine, who came all the way from New York to the service. The slide show was impressive, and as people were filling Kresge Recital Hall they could listen to the third movement of Bach’s sixth Brandenburg Concerto as pictures of Paul appeared and disappeared on the big screen at the front of the stage—pictures of Paul in the classroom, pictures of Paul at various Shakespeare parties (Paul as Falstaff, Paul as Juliet, as Lear, as Hamlet’s mother), Paul clowning at the Bernini Fountain in Piazza Navona in Rome, Paul and his first wife on Little Cranberry Island in Maine, Paul at the Blüthner grand, Paul at the head of a dining room table covered with dishes and bottles of wine, Paul and me in our tomato garden, Paul and baby Stella, Paul and Stella at Stella’s various graduations.
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