[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Twofer
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:44:02 -0500
I have nothing meaningful to say about any of this except how much I love
the first. Lovely wonderful.
Julie Campbell
Julie's Music & Language Studio
1215 W. Worley
Columbia, MO 65203
573-881-6889
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:11 PM, David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> "If I should die think only this of me..."
> Goodness that's an imperious imperial line; I mean what right have I to
> tell you what to think of me?
> Whatever you damn well choose.
> Now the line should be, "Might I make a suggestion...
> about post mortem arrangements?"
> "If I should die...emote as you see fit, assemble some of my stuff into a
> roadside memorial if the spirit so takes you, donate a few bucks to the
> charity of your choice, sweat if you wish over the obit (knowing few will
> read it), if chance and the boss allow pause in your busy day, if you come
> do wear something comfortable to the funeral and by all means scribble
> whatever springs to mind (with felt markers) all over the cheap pine
> coffin. Club together (have a whip-round) for a giant surplus something to
> recycle, a battleship perhaps? Plant it somewhere amusing and incongruous.
> Add a lei and a panama hat and I'm done. Sorted."
>
>
>
>
> "Buggery." I wonder what, if anything, William Safire may have written
> about that in his language column; not the practice, but the power of the
> exclamation. "How was your week?" someone English asked.
> "Un-di-lu-ted buggery. Yours?"
> That was the week that was.
> Some while back.
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland,
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