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- From: pmcauley@maths.tcd.ie (Paul Mc Auley (in the Pearse St. Lab))
- Subject: Re: Reaperman...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.155216.24594@maths.tcd.ie>
- Keywords: emily Dickinson
- Organization: Maths R Us
- References: <1992Nov18.075841.7863@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:52:16 GMT
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- In <1992Nov18.075841.7863@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> macaj2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (MACKINNELL AMANDA) writes:
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- | Is anyone familiar with Emily Dickinson's poem that begins:
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- | "Because I could not stop for Death,
- | He kindly stopped for me-
- | the carriage held but just ourselves-
- | And immortality."
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- | To me this sounds like the theme employed in the end of Reaper Man
- | when Death, after finding the most user-friendly diamond and the
- | Dark enchantment-variety Chocolates, comes to see Miss Flitworth.
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- Nahhhhh, however, did you know that a lot of her poems can be sung to the
- tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas"? (Just my 0.02$ + 22% vat worth) :-)
- Paul.
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