[lit-ideas] Re: Is 'All men are immortal' unscientific?/Paean To Woody
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:08:47 -0400
Poet Richard Wilbur puts it thus:
from "Epistemology"
II.
We milk the cow of the world, and as we do
We whisper in her ear, 'You are not true.'
--- 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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