Is it better to be ridiculed or forgotten? Almost everyone is forgotten eventually. Even when they're turned into a marketing commodity, like Marilyn Monroe, the name lives on, but the person is forgotten. In Marilyn's case, the person never existed. Maybe that's why she killed herself, to complete the nonexistence. It isn't Marilyn who's remembered; it's the image of Marilyn that's loved. > [Original Message] > From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 11/19/2006 12:35:25 AM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: There's no such thing as a free cremation > > >>And we are the beneficiaries of your sometime confusion. > It was a loverly note. > > > Yes it was. > > By way of abnegation, and in the spirit of helping, I give > Mike Geary permission to mock me when I'm dead. Mock on > Voltaire! Show no reverence. Roast the decomposing Yost. > Hang me out to dry. Lampoon. Pen your most acid pasquinade. > Deride. Ridicule. Razz, cod, and rib. > > There you have it. A wince-free laissez passer. > > A rapidly-aging mammal, > Eric > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html