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Re: BetsyLewis
You raise some excellent points and that's one of the points that halts me in my tracks. So, I'm continuing to explore...thank you for commenting.
posted by
BetsyLewis
on January 20, 2009 at 6:06 PM
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BetsyLewis
I read Gordon Parks' autobiography years ago, but that's the only one outside of my formal education I can remember. I maintain a journal blog, but that's far from memoirs. I cherry pick what I write about here, choosing only the stories about myself I want to tell. I wouldn't have that luxury with a memoir. Nor would I want to deal with others who have made impacts on my life, both good and ill, reading what I really think about them. Even if everything is accurate, I would surely ruffle a few feathers. No thanks. I'd never write a memoir.
posted by
Talion_
on January 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM
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Re: Memoirs
Excellent! You are so right!
posted by
BetsyLewis
on January 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM
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Memoirs
Betsy,
I believe that anyone who ever wrote or chose their own epitaph, left their own extremely concentrated, memoir, a few lines, chiseled in stone. Stone lasts a very long time. Epitaphs are carefully chosen, particularly if this is done by the eventual decedant, personally.
In that spirit, I offer this Robt. Service poem:
| Just Think! Just think! some night the stars will gleam Upon a cold, grey stone, And trace a name with silver beam, And lo! 'twill be your own. That night is speeding on to greet Your epitaphic rhyme. Your life is but a little beat Within the heart of Time. A little gain, a little pain, A laugh, lest you may moan; A little blame, a little fame, A star-gleam on a stone. |
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northsage_45
on January 20, 2009 at 5:50 AM
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I LOVED Angela's Ashes. You know, I probably should go back and re-read that just for fun (and possibly inspiration.) Thanks a million for your input.
posted by
BetsyLewis
on January 19, 2009 at 1:56 PM
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Probably "entertaining" is the key word. I have started it but am not sure I should go the length.
posted by
BetsyLewis
on January 19, 2009 at 1:55 PM
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I really liked "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt.
I have not written my own, and probably won't.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 19, 2009 at 1:18 PM
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I don't read them much, but I think it is fantastic that you are entertaining one! sam
posted by
sam444
on January 19, 2009 at 9:14 AM
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