27 years since the Financial Times killed one of England’s finest poets
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Re: 27 years since the Financial Times killed one of England’s finest poets
#2that sounds like very much the way I'd like to go.
Re: 27 years since the Financial Times killed one of England’s finest poets
#3that sounds like very much the way I'd like to go.
Agreed. Dying in your sleep, having been fed a good meal with good company, at a seasoned old age with your wife by your side is as good as anyone can dream of.
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I'm confident the poet would've preferred this headline than your alternative.
Re: 27 years since the Financial Times killed one of England’s finest poets
#6FYI: (and, indeed, of mine):
> The intelligence and casually flamboyant virtuosity with which he framed his often humorous commentaries on human behaviour made his work invariably entertaining and interesting.
> The irreverent eroticism for which his poetry is noted resulted in W. H. Smith's banning of his The Pleasures of the Flesh (1966) from their shops.
Re: 27 years since the Financial Times killed one of England’s finest poets
#7that sounds like very much the way I'd like to go.
Agreed. Dying in your sleep, having been fed a good meal with good company, at a seasoned old age with your wife by your side is as good as anyone can dream of.
"as anyone can dream of"
Viking warriors and co would probably disagree. Not the gloriest way to Valhalla..
(personally I rather care how good I live, than how I die)
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I appreciate your outrage. Its absurdity casts much of my own internet commentary in a new light.
Every internet comment I’ve ever made in anger or snark, I hereby renounce.
Re: 27 years since the Financial Times killed one of England’s finest poets
#9that sounds like very much the way I'd like to go.
"There are two things you need to know," she said. "The first is that Gavin came home yesterday happier than I have seen him in a long time. The second - and you are not to feel bad about this - is that he died this morning."
For some reason that strikes me as the most moving thing I have read in a long time.