Break on through to the other side

A customer who always talks about 60s groups mentioned the Doors the other day. I said that I knew someone who saw the Doors in LA in the 1960s. I also visited Morrison's grave in the Père Lachaise cemetery  in Paris in 1985. I was with a group of friends when we visited the cemetery. On our visit we saw the Oscar Wilde  grave modelled by Epstein (the penis had not been hacked off) Sarah Bernhardt, Sartre and others. Morrison is buried in a remote part of the graveyard. And directions were handily given by previous visitors who scrawled “This way to Jim”, “The way of the lizard” and “Break on through to the other side” on the sides of the 19^th century monumental tombs en route to the grave. When we got there there was a guard of “ heads” around the grave. There was a small bust of Morrison on the site where someone in felt pen had written “ do not write on Jim's face” on the right cheek of the bust. There were several other visitors to the grave. Unfortunately one of the heads asked a young American woman where she was from and she answered LA. This was the cue for the heads to do an impromptu performance of LA Woman as they sang and dances around the tomb of their hero.