[lit-ideas] Re: Is 'All men are immortal' unscientific?/Paean To Woody

  • From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:20:12 +0000 (GMT)



--- On Fri, 14/3/08, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My favorite along this line is from Robert Frost: "Dear
> Lord, forgive my
> little jokes on thee, and I'll forgive thy great big
> one on me."
> 
> John

> 
> > Woody Allen writes that the idea of his mortality
> doesn't bother him too much,
> > he just doesn't want to be around when it happens.
> >
> > William Ball

Woody had also memorably claimed that he did not want to achieve immortality 
through his work - he wanted to achieve it by not dying.

Donal



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