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imthefoolonthehill
01-19-2004, 12:04 AM
Are you all mourning Rudyard Kipling's death?
Today (the 18th of January) is the anniversary of his death.
subterranean
01-19-2004, 12:17 AM
OH, I don't know that. What year?
fayefaye
01-19-2004, 12:21 AM
No.... I don't mourn author's deaths.
Same as Faye, can't see a point in it. But it's nice when someone remembers... IMHO it's more meaningful than mourning.
*and I suddenly realize Nic's thread about acronyms did influence me ;)*
Does anyone know about what happens at the grave site every year at the anniversary of Poe's death?
fayefaye
02-11-2004, 06:17 AM
No, but I get the feeling it's interesting. Do tell. :)
This guy (no one knows who, but many have seen him) in a long black cape and hat visits his grave in the middle of the night. He kneels down and places 3 long-stem red roses and a half empty bottle of congac (I think that's the right drink and spelling) in front of the tombstone. He left a note this year that had something to do with being politically correct, but I can't remember what my instructor said it was.:rolleyes:
Does anyone know?
Munro
02-14-2004, 04:57 AM
cognac. Never drunk it though.
If it isn't an urban myth, then man that is cool. In many ways, authors and poets are my equivalent to saints, in that I am often as interested in them as I am in their works, and I look up to them as like holy figures above. As Shelley famously wrote, they are "the unacknowledged legislators of the Universe." The only minds that I often feel are really telling the truth in this world. So I should mourn their deaths, but for some reason I don't.
Thanks for that, Shea
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