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- From: rand@skydiver.Eng.Sun.COM (Avant-Garde-A-Clue)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Dorothy Parker
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 19:55:33 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- References: <C17qxv.EM8@boi.hp.com>
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- In article EM8@boi.hp.com, hypes@boi.hp.com (Gary Hypes) writes:
- > Sadly, tragically, Parker was alone, mostly forgotten, penniless, and
- > essentially blind when she died in 1967. She made the grave error of
- > outliving both her friends and her times.
- >
- >
- > - Gary Hypes -
-
-
- With this in mind (all from Dorothy Parker):
-
- NEITHER BLOODY NOR BOWED
-
- They say of me, and so they should,
- It's doubtful if I come to good.
- I see acquaintances and friends
- accumulating dividends,
- and making enviable names
- in science, art, and parlor games.
- But I despite expert advice,
- keep doing things I think are nice,
- and though to good I never come
- inseperable my nose and thumb.
-
-
- SANCTUARY
- My land is bare of chattering folk;
- the clouds are low along the ridges,
- and sweet's the air with curly smoke
- from all my burning bridges.
-
- Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.
-
- Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
- A medley of extemporanea;
- And love is thing that can never go wrong;
- And I am Marie of Romania.
-