The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #166429   Message #4001452
Posted By: keberoxu
21-Jul-19 - 02:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'wrote after his death'
Subject: miswritten, misread
I forget the category of messed-up writing to which this belongs.


Of course the biographical sound-bite writer was talking about
a friendship between two different persons,
and the writer had the best of intentions when he remarked, about
the bereavement of one person when the other person died first:

"He only wrote twenty-three poems after his death … "

poetry of Michelangelo Buonarroti

… but the sentence kind of jumped out at me
because it is so easy to misunderstand.