urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:raygunn_revival Per Ardua ad Astra Inc. Presents: All the Worlds and the Heavens Under One Tent the not-so-reverend ray gunn 2005-08-05T16:41:32Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:raygunn_revival:50229 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z 2005-08-05T16:41:32Z <i><span class='ljuser ljuser-name_drsmax' lj:user='drsmax' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://drsmax.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://drsmax.livejournal.com/'><b>drsmax</b></a></span> has been following the directives of my journal and has submitted a theme for me. The theme is actually a question: "Who Is Jan Snupij?"<br /><br />Over the next week or so I will be creating a portrait of Jan Snupij in eight parts.<br /><br />In attempting to unravel the biography of a great man, sometimes one has to begin at the end and work backwards:</i><br /><br /><br /><b>viii.<br /><br />On the last day of Jan Snupij's life, a day that he had known was coming since the night before, he put on a hat that had once been a favorite of his grandfather's and walked to the park. He had always loved wearing the hat when he was younger, because of the contrast between itself in its well-constructed angular coarseness and his smooth, young face. Over the years, the contrast had vanished, but he still loved wearing the hat.</b>