I walk a tight path between families that are sitting around the head stones of loved ones.
Instead the Roses stuck to a set of classic songs – from Made of Stone to Love Spreads – that made this an emotionally charged night.
Roots reggae in the vein of Bob Marley is still alive and well, but to truly experience contemporary Jamaican music, visit the capital, Kingston, and get to know dancehall music at one of the city's nightly street dances, like Weddy Weddy Wednesday on Burlington Avenue, at the home base of Stone Love, one of Jamaica's most famous sound systems.
The strategic overhaul, analysts say, was driven by the anemic performance of De Beers shares in recent years and by public-relations fears that "conflict diamonds" from Africa are poisoning a carefully nurtured image that De Beers stones are symbols of "love, beauty and purity".
The new film adaptation of "Possession," directed by Neil LaBute, is likely to appeal to the second group of readers, since Mr. LaBute has wisely kept on-screen recitation to a minimum and completely omitted reference to "Ask to Embla," the mythopoetic magnum opus that functions in the novel as a kind of Rosetta stone of secret, literary love.
"Skip Skimmer" is simple but weirdly compelling – tracking wrist movements with astonishing accuracy while skipping a virtual stone over a lake, with novelty stones in the shape of love hearts or with a kitten's face stamped upon them creating special effects.
An intellectual saboteur who has kissed the Blarney stone of postmodernism, Fish loves nothing more than to wave his wand over things that we know full well exist - like the text of a book, or our most basic principles - and persuade us that they are, in fact, mere figments of imagination and interpretation.
In Mecca, I achieved some peace with Abraham not through acts of reinterpretation but through walking as a pilgrim among my sisters and brothers, throwing the stones as a performance of love.
But, when he switches back to an analytical mode, Stone immediately turns cheerful, full of love for the game.
While Carrey's affirmation of love for Stone might be bordering on creepy, we can't really blame him.
