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Metropolitan Tombology (PARIS CATACOMBS) with Erin-Marie Legacey

Ologies with Alie Ward

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The Catacombs Guest Book

I thought it would be kind of like moving and emotional but it just was like yup those are bones you know it. I got bored after a couple of minutes some people say that not everybody yeahYeah they're like okay bones got it yeah It's very interesting to see how it staged so in addition to all the bones there's a bunch of kind of sculptures made out of bones. There are these quotations from all sorts of thing literature poetry the Bible like things from antiquityThings from the 19th century little passages are put on these plaques throughout the catacombs that are supposed to make you sort of ruminate on death and your own death and things like that. A lot of them

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