[lit-ideas] Re: Seamus Heaney dies
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 12:46:26 -0500
I think it was Hilary Belloc who said (more or less), "I read in this
morning paper that Edward Stelman had died. Interesting, I didn't know he
had even been born." (or something to that effect). Just thought it
apropos to the discussion. Take it as you like or (as Speranza would no
doubt say) not.
Mike Geary
so Memphian that I walk like an Egyptian
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:21 PM, <jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, it is a philosophical point, as Witters says in the Tractatus:
> "Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death [...]
> Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits."
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> I would not be surprised if, in the future, it is the birthday rather than
> the deathday of Seamus Heaney is recalled.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Speranza
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: lit-ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sat, Aug 31, 2013 07:47 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Seamus Heaney dies
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> *From:* "Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx" <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
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> In a message dated 8/30/2013 7:28:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> >>Seamus Heaney dies
>
> and, may I add, before that, he had been born.>
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> And may I add that only a philosospher (of sorts) would think this worth
> adding.
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> D
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