Lines I Wish I’d Written
February 10, 2009
Today’s edition is kind of a scattershot. The first comment is the kind of thing I tell Rebekah whenever she throws out, inadvertently or otherwise, some of the notes I leave lying around in messy piles all over the house. The other two are just good stuff.
“Captain Sir Richard Burton died in Trieste on October 20, 1890. Alarmed by the…content of her husband’s papers, Isabel Burton burned almost all of his notes, diaries, and manuscripts – an immeasurable loss to history.”
-from the foreword to a very good selection of Sir Richard Burton’s translation of The Arabian Nights.
“What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.” – Evelyn Waugh, who must have taught junior high.
“Everybody’s got a secret, Sonny
Something that they just can’t face
Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it
They carry it with them every step that they take
‘Til some day they just cut it loose
Cut it loose or let it drag ‘em down
Where no one asks any questions
Or looks too long in your face
In the darkness on the edge of town”-Bruce Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town
