Nothing can bring all of that back into our physical presence.
We're here today to acknowledge and begin to try to accept the intolerable fact of that loss, symbolized by the bodily shell that once housed an infinite imagination and an indomitable human spirit. Carl knew we needed to confront the reality of his passing, and that is one reason he chose to have this public display of his physical remains. But he would not have us dwell forever in this gap between what was and never again shall be. And as I grew to know him better, as I watched the seemingly endless flow of productivity and generosity from a man who could well have been passing his days lazily in retirement, the more inevitable the congruence became between this man's very being and the body of work he was producing. And he accepted the awesome responsibility that accompanied this gift, bequeathed in part, but only in part, by Disney.