Friday, January 3, 2003

An Ancient To Ancients Comments

Rating: 2.8

Where once we danced, where once we sang,
Gentlemen,
The floors are sunken, cobwebs hang,
And cracks creep; worms have fed upon
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Thomas Hardy
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Bill Buffett 18 May 2009

I'm seventy-six, retired and a writer. An essay I wrote for a book I plan to self-publish is on getting older: 'I CanStill Change a Lighty Bulb.' Hardy's poem has special meaning. Not long ago I started his 'Jude the Obscure' and thoroughly enjoyed it until near the end. At a certain point I was so aggrevated by a turn in the plot that I put the book down ad probably won't return to it.

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