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Thread #76059 Message #1344138
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
01-Dec-04 - 05:18 AM
Thread Name: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
I always liked the Derek brimstone line:-
If I should die, think only this of me
In some corner of a foreign field lies...
a plagiarist.
Its a depressing thought alright, a lovely sunny morning like today and the party goes on without us - no one much noticing that we've checked out, and won't be coming back. Like Keats said, here lies one whose name was writ in water....
Like a lot of people here I've left instuctions, I don't want any kind of funeral. People have a chance to say nice things about you when you're alive. that's when it counts.
someone once wrote that Dickens wept over Thackeray's grave, but when they were both alive the and competing with each other, the boxing gloves were off.......an unpleasant side to us a species!