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21 Jul 19 - 02:32 PM (#4001452) Subject: miswritten, misread From: keberoxu 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. |
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21 Jul 19 - 06:03 PM (#4001477) Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death' From: Mrrzy Peevish? We have a thread for that... |
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21 Jul 19 - 06:29 PM (#4001479) Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death' From: robomatic It's almost the same thing as decomposing! If I was English I'd get my hat. . . |
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21 Jul 19 - 07:25 PM (#4001484) Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death' From: Severn 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?..... |
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21 Jul 19 - 09:45 PM (#4001495) Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death' From: keberoxu Severn has been too close to death's door in recent months ... glad to see some gallows humor here. |
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22 Jul 19 - 05:47 PM (#4001632) Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death' From: keberoxu Puts me in mind of Jimi Hendrix who has been dead these thirty years or something and albums kept coming out and coming out ... |
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23 Jul 19 - 02:17 AM (#4001664) Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death' From: BobL "Charles I walked and talked Half an hour after his Head was cut off." |
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23 Jul 19 - 10:42 AM (#4001745) Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death' From: Mrrzy I thought that was St. Denis, patron of Paris. |
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23 Jul 19 - 12:32 PM (#4001782) Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death' From: robomatic And of course there was the man who ran over himself. |
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23 Jul 19 - 08:43 PM (#4001834) Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death' From: Mrrzy Wait, who? |
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24 Jul 19 - 12:49 AM (#4001840) Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death' From: Mrrzy 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*? |
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24 Jul 19 - 03:00 AM (#4001846) Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death' From: BobL You probably wouldn't like the term I use for things I'd rather not be bothered with before I die. After, no problem. |
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25 Jul 19 - 11:09 AM (#4002018) Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death' From: leeneia I had no idea that Michelangelo wrote poetry. I can't find it on the net. |
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25 Jul 19 - 05:56 PM (#4002070) Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death' From: Mrrzy I am following you around, leeneia... Just came from that thread, with that thought. |
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27 Jul 19 - 06:12 AM (#4002264) Subject: RE: BS: 'wrote after his death' From: DMcG 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. |