New Orts #48
December 15 MMXXIV
There once was a fellow of Bellingham
so stubborn that there was no telling him.
His wife said, “My dear,
I wish you weren’t here.”
He ignored her and she wound up selling him.
—Garrison Keillor
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"-- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-- all, from Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain, American "humorist"