[lit-ideas] Re: Life leads to death

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:51:06 -0700


On Sep 8, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Eric Yost wrote:

Dnl: when others die, in what sense can they be said to have "done it," justly or not?

In the sense of Solon's "the happy man is dead." Retrospectively. That was a good back rub. That was a good life. That was a good death. That was a great pastrami sandwich.

Mr. Foot-in-Mouth


You're getting your "D" s muddled; it wasn't Donal wot wrote that, 'twas moi.

David Ritchie,
better than a pastrami sandwich in
Protlund, Horegon

"You haven't lived until you've died in California,"  Mort Sahl.
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