[lit-ideas] Re: Here's an attitude towards death .
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Chris Bruce <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:02:19 -0700
I have a great attitude towards death. It's life that's giving me trouble.
(Someone before me must have said this.)
re: posts
No dupes from wokshevs.
best,
Carol
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Here's an attitude towards death .
> This reminds me of a very fine educational philosopher, friend and person
> who
> recently passed away, Terry McLaughlin. He held the Richard S. Peters
> Chair in
> Philosophy of Education at the Institute of Education, University of
> London.
> (Many years at St. Edmunds College, Cambridge, before that as Head,
> Educational
> Studies.) He used to say: "Smile when you give alms to the poor so that
> perhaps
> they may forgive you." I miss him very much. (As a colleague once put it:
> "Terry's the closest thing to Jesus Christ I've ever met.")
>
> W.C.O
> Memorial U
>
>
> P.S. I am not aware that my missives are being posted twice. Do others
> disagree?
>
>
> Quoting Chris Bruce <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> The current edition of the German weekly Die Zeit contains the
>> following quotation from Robert Gernhardt (who died on June 30th). At
>> first it seemed to me a wonderfully comic bit of 'whistling in the
>> dark', but has since grown considerably in my estimation; so much so
>> that it now significantly colours my own attitude towards death.
>>
>> »Denkt euch, ich habe den Tod gesehn,
>> es ging ihm gar nicht gut.
>> Seine Haende wirkten so seltsam bleich,
>> so gar nicht wie Fleisch und Blut.
>> Und auf dem duerren Hals sass gar
>> ein Kopf, der ganz aus Knochen war.
>> Aus Knochen, ganz aus Knochen, denkt!
>> Da hab ich ihm fuenf Mark geschenkt.«
>>
>> (Just think, I've seen Death, he was not at all well. His hands seemed
>> so oddly pale, not at all like flesh and blood. And on his scrawny
>> neck sat a head, that consisted entirely of bones. Of bones, entirely
>> of bones, think of it! So I gave him 5 Deutschmarks.)
>>
>> Chris Bruce
>> Kiel, Germany
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