The trucks arrive, everyone is silent but poised and ready to help transform these beautiful bears' lives from misery to opportunity.
The person to blame for this sad death was none other than American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, writer of some breathtakingly beautiful songs, including Miss Misery, Pictures of Me and, of course, Needle in the Hay.
But to me it also seems arrogant to spend so much time making something beautiful when people live in misery.
Whatever else there is to say about this entreaty, one part that is indisputably true is that this land-locked, ruggedly beautiful nation is in absolute misery.
There was misery, and the beautiful ugliness of people, and there was [Herbert] Huncke telling me that he had seen Edie in Detroit and told her that I still loved her.
More enticing is the talk in their press release of Amory as "a character in internal conflict, consumed by his own vanity, either maladjusted or hopelessly hedonistic", and of his own pronouncements on his music's themes, his intention being "to dress the misery in something beautiful.
"How beautiful the Haitians look in their misery; they always do.
Buying a ticket to a marine park or swimming with captive dolphins condemns these beautiful animals to a lifetime of misery and deprivation".
There are some laughs, but not that many, and a weird, nagging undertow of self-pity and resentment of beautiful women making honest guys' lives a misery.
In fact, he's inadvertently inspired a genuinely remarkable album: self-obsessed but completely compelling, profoundly discomforting but beautiful, lost in its own fathomless personal misery, but warm, funny and wise.
