No Half Measures

[poliphilo]

It's a gothic church- half-finished. We set fire to it because we need to cremate a couple of bodies that are lying in tombs in a roofless side chapel. Don't be misled by the gruesomeness into thinking we're dealing with vampires. No, so far as I can make out the corpses belong to members of the Kennedy family. There's a business-like atmosphere. The bodies have to be burned (even though they're decently interred) and half-measures won't do- so the whole building has to go. I watch the tower crack and crumble.