Showing posts with label Unfamous last words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unfamous last words. Show all posts
Friday, 5 September 2014
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Unfamous last words - 4
Charge the windowsill.- Col. (Ret.) Dorrigo Evans, quixotic (and fictional) Australian survivor of the Burma railway, in Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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Australians,
Burma,
Quoted Matter,
Richard Flanagan,
Unfamous last words,
war,
WWII
Monday, 9 June 2014
Unfamous last words - 3
... moose ... Indian ...- Henry David Thoreau
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animals,
death,
Indians (Red),
Quoted Matter,
Thoreau,
Unfamous last words
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Unfamous Last Words - 2
I liked things better the way they were before.- Melekh Gaystick, suicidal (fictional) chess champion, in Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union
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chess,
death,
Michael Chabon,
suicide,
Unfamous last words
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Unfamous last words
We shall feel better in the morning.- Emile Zola, to his wife, as they were being slowly gassed by a malfunctioning bedroom fireplace.
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