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BarkellWH
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RE: Examples of good English. (in reply to BarkellWH)
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I have led (to me, at least) a fairly interesting life. Went to university; spent a few years in the U.S. Air Force in an intelligence command working overseas; after getting a master's degree entered and spent a career in the U.S. Foreign Service; and since retirement from the Foreign Service, consulting and traveling. I have been married to a Brazilian woman for 40 years, and before that I had a few girlfriends, probably none of whom have given me a second's thought since. I mention the above because it has always been my desire to be remembered upon my death, by at least one woman, with the same intensity expressed by Lady Caroline Lamb upon the death of her lover, Lord Byron. After Lord Byron's death, Lady Caroline Lamb confided to her diary that Byron was, "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know." That has always been my idea of the ideal epitaph on one's tombstone. I doubt that my Brazilian wife would think of me in those terms, and if my previous girlfriends haven't given me a second's thought in decades, I doubt that it will happen. Nevertheless, I have always thought Lady Caroline Lamb's description of Byron was pretty cool: "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Cheers, Bill
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Date May 31 2013 0:37:46
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BarkellWH
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RE: Examples of good English. (in reply to Paul Magnussen)
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It seems a pretty peculiar choice of an epitaph to me (although of course, no one wants to be totally without distinction). I wrote it with tongue in cheek, Paul. Actually, I have led a very conventional love life (married to the same Brazilian woman for 40 years). No woman would ever flatter me (as Lady Caroline Lamb did Lord Byron) with the notoriety attached to being "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Having read a biography of Byron, I would have to say the phrase did seem to fit him. Cheers, Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here, Who tried to hustle the East." --Rudyard Kipling
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Date May 31 2013 8:09:34
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BarkellWH
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RE: Examples of good English. (in reply to edguerin)
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What about Saki (the writer, not the beverage ) Saki (actual name, H.H. Munro) wrote the classic, "The Open Window," which was a fixture in US high school English literature classes when I was in high school 52 years ago. Cheers, Bill
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Date May 31 2013 16:27:30
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