[lit-ideas] Re: Not Imagining Sex, or The Whipple Spot
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:09:29 -0700
On Sep 10, 2009, at 7:53 PM, John McCreery wrote:
A few years back, my daughter recommended "Stiff" to her parents. A
book about corpses and how they are treated in medical and other
contexts, it has many of the virtues David attributes to "Bonk."
And, in any case, from "Stiff" to "Bonk" is simply irresistible.
Sweet dreams,
John
John reminds me of daughters, of which I have two. John has been
known to introduce into our august presence hints of paternal pride.
Here is my version, forwarding an e mail from the college freshperson
that is about as interested in life's strangeness as I be:
this made me happy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
List_of_tuberculosis_victims
is it odd that i find it funny that camus suffered severely from tb
and then was killed in a car crash?
princess amelia of brazil died of tb, but i think it was actually
because she hated her name and people got out of breath saying it:
Marie Amélie Auguste Eugénie Joséphine Louise Théodelinde Héloïse
Françoise Xavier de Paule Michelle Gabrielle Raphaëlle Gonzague. her
father was Pedro I of brazil, or Peter of Alcantara Francis Anthony
John Charles Xavier of Paula Michael Raphael Joachim Joseph Gonzaga
Pascal Cyprian Seraphim) (full name: Pedro de Alcântara Francisco
Antônio João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José
Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim. He was a freemason and had many
amorous affairs, known for drawing back curtains of coaches to search
for pretty women. dude. his second wife's brother married his 7 year
old daughter. he died at 35 of tb
Prince Amendeo of Savoy-Aosta: Amedeo Umberto Isabella Luigi Filippo
Maria Giuseppe Giovanni di Savoia-Aosta, also died of tb (he was an iti)
braille, the guy who invented (guess what) braille, blinded himself
at the age of 3 by sticking one eye with an awl, and then the other
eye became blind by sympathy. he died of tb
celsius was an astronomer. invented celsius because was trying to
figure out if freezing point was dependent on latitude. was more
famous as astronomer during his time. has a crater on the moon.
wrote some poetry as well. died of tb at 42
chekhov died of tb (44), and his body was brought back in a
refrigerated train car for fresh oysters. some of the mourners for
him followed the wrong funerary procession by mistake
chopin had a ten year relationship with georges sand. he either died
of tb or cystic fibrosis. there's recent controversy. when he died,
his heart was taken out and placed apart from his body in a church
which was destroyed in 1944, but the heart had been taken out for
safekeeping. he had mozart's requiem sung at his funeral. 2 things
about that - it was the first time the church of the madeleine had
allowed female singers (they had to stand behind a black curtain),
and one of the singers had sung the same work at beethoven's funeral
22 years earlier
George Robert Crotch (1842–1874) was a British entomologist.
Born in Cambridge, England 1842 Crotch became interested in insects,
especially Coleoptera, while an undergraduate at Cambridge
University. He worked at the University Library, Cambridge. He
collected insects in Europe and in the Autumn of 1872, he left
England on an entomological tour of the world initially arriving at
Philadelphia and in the Spring/Summer of 1873 collected insects in
California, Oregon, and the Fraser River in British Colimbia. In 1873
he accepted a position as assistant from Louis Agassiz at the Harvard
Museum of Comparative Zoology with Hermann August Hagen. He made
collections of Coleoptera in California , Vancouver's Island and
Oregon but soon afterwards he died of tuberculosis.
Crotch was the author of a number of books, including Checklist of
the Coleoptera of America (1873) and A revision of the Coleopterous
family Coccinellidae (1874). His Coleoptera collection from the
Azores is in the British Museum, London while the European
Coleoptera, Erotylidae and Coccinellidae were left to the Cambridge
University Museum of Zoology.
He was an authority on the Coccinellidae (Ladybird beetles) and
Erotylidae of the world.
Ferdinand Karl of Austria (Vienna, December 27, 1868 - Munich, March
12, 1915) was the third son of Archduke Archduke Charles Louis of
Austria and Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, who was murdered in Saravejo on
June 28 1914, an event leading to World War I, was his elder brother.
As his brother, he concluded in 1909 a Morganatic marriage with
Bertha Czuber (1879-1979). They had no children. In 1911 he was
expelled from the house of Habsburg by Emperor Franz Joseph.
Hereafter, Ferdinand named himself Ferdinand Burg and lived in Tyrol.
By then Ferdinand Karl was affected bytuberculosis, of which he died
in 1915.
Dr Alexander Garden (1730 – 1791) is most famous as a botanist whose
name lives on in the gardenia flower, though he was also a physician
andzoologist. Born and educated in Scotland, he lived for many years
in Charleston, South Carolina, using his spare time to study plants
and living creatures, and sending specimens to the famous naturalist,
Carolus Linnaeus. died of tb
There's a jay gould who died of tb...american financier
John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an
American dentist,gambler and gunfighter of the American Old West, who
is usually remembered for his friendship withWyatt Earp and the
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. died of tb at 36
andrew jackson was born after his father died. the rest of his
family died during the revolutionary war(smallpox, etc). he fought
in 13 duels, but only ever killed one man. two people around him
died of tb, and then he died of it and several other things at 78
kafka liked yiddish and eastern european jews, but never had much
formal judaism in his actual life. he had an on-again-off-again
relationship with a woman for about 5 years, getting engaged to her
twice. had tb, but died of starvation because his throat hurt too
much to eat.
keats died of tb at 25, but so did most of his family. his dad
didnt.. he fell off his horse.
vivien leigh was born in india. she was sent to england at 6 and a
half for school. when she died of tb, olivier was in a nearby
hospital getting treatment for prostate cancer.
Carl Schlechter was a chess champion(austrian). died of tb at 44
Schrödinger died of tb as well, though not before he left germany in
33 because he disliked the nazis' antisemitism. he went to oxford,
but had to leave because they didn't like the fact that he lived with
two women. eventually became a naturalized irish citizen. was in
love with his assistant's wife at one time. but he and his wife had
a very open relationship, with both of them having lovers. did quite
a bit of work with color. has a crater on the moon named after him.
dred scott died from tb 9 months after being freed.
and that's enough for now.
David Ritchie,
hoping she's getting enough sleep
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