BS: 'wrote after his death'

Subject: miswritten, misread
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jul 19 - 02:32 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death'
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Jul 19 - 06:03 PM

Peevish? We have a thread for that...

Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death'
From: robomatic
Date: 21 Jul 19 - 06:29 PM

It's almost the same thing as decomposing!

If I was English I'd get my hat. . .

Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death'
From: Severn
Date: 21 Jul 19 - 07:25 PM

After one has died and finished decomposing once one has completely returned to the soil,one can write their post-humus memoirs....

What hath we? Rot, here?.....

Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death'
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jul 19 - 09:45 PM

Severn has been too close to death's door in recent months ...

glad to see some gallows humor here.

Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death'
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jul 19 - 05:47 PM

Puts me in mind of Jimi Hendrix
who has been dead these thirty years or something
and
albums kept coming out and coming out ...

Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death'
From: BobL
Date: 23 Jul 19 - 02:17 AM

"Charles I walked and talked Half an hour after his Head was cut off."

Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death'
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Jul 19 - 10:42 AM

I thought that was St. Denis, patron of Paris.

Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death'
From: robomatic
Date: 23 Jul 19 - 12:32 PM

And of course there was the man who ran over himself.

Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death'
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Jul 19 - 08:43 PM

Wait, who?

Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death'
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Jul 19 - 12:49 AM

Anyway, this thread reminds me of my dislike of the term "bucket list" = things to do before you die. Well, when else would you do them, *after*?

Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death'
From: BobL
Date: 24 Jul 19 - 03:00 AM

You probably wouldn't like the term I use for things I'd rather not be bothered with before I die. After, no problem.

Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death'
From: leeneia
Date: 25 Jul 19 - 11:09 AM

I had no idea that Michelangelo wrote poetry. I can't find it on the net.

Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death'
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Jul 19 - 05:56 PM

I am following you around, leeneia... Just came from that thread, with that thought.

Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death'
From: DMcG
Date: 27 Jul 19 - 06:12 AM

One of my favourites was a documentary about Martin Luther. "During this time he had to go into hiding and grew a false beard."

I am pretty sure he grew a real beard. Growing a false one is difficult.