I have often marveled at the reported last words of famous people. In fact, while prepping for this post I read a good many “last words”. Some of them were moving, some were ridiculous, and surely some were said, not by the dying person, but by his or her biographer.
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If we knew, without doubt, the last of our moments, would we compose the perfect bon mot or pithy saying? Would we be in any mental condition to hold it together long and well enough to utter those words?
More importantly, would it matter? Unless we are (were) famous, well-loved, hated, or infamous, the chances are nobody outside of our immediately family would ever hear what we said.
So, would it matter?
In any event, there is a challenge in all of this.
Write two sets of “last words”, one, perhaps, what you would like to be known for saying when you breathed your last, and the other, something engaging, odd, compelling, or in some way evocative of the unusual.
Then, ask yourself, what kind of person would utter “Finally,” as his or her last words?
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio... and isn't it time you experienced some of them?
Well, I’m in the middle of quite an experience. I was phished by Yahoo. Would you believe? I received a Yahoo post, which asked for my identity because they were doing a check on the Yahoo news commentators. So I complied and then checked my e-mails to find that there was still a Yahoo News post there, which made me think twice about whether they had also asked for a check up.
Anyway, Yahoo ended up putting a block on my line. But I felt the take over of my website continued to grow. Those security checks have no limits, I fear. Then the kids’ dad phoned laughing joking about having sent me money, and would I like to go out for coffee.
So I hope you know, and all my other contacts, that I’m too poor to ever need money sent to me in Europe.
Anyway, I’m still waiting for the 24 hour limit to be over. Will that be a new beginning or a final farewell.
I knew it wasn’t you, right away, Loreen. But then, I’ve known you for a couple of weeks now. ))
Hope it gets cleared up soon without you having to resort to getting a new email address.
I have had to get a new e-mail address. What a mess. I’ve lost linked in, Stanford philosophy, Guy Finlay, etc. etc. etc. and all of the e-mails I sent my son, etc. etc. No more data on any of the memories over the last couple of years. Yes, I’m hear. I’m interested in going to see how Raytch is doing. But I am ‘finally’ so into the writing, that I’m definitely going to keep a low provile on the web. The dark corners of the web were revealed to me when I was doing my investigations into that Rococco Canadian Psycho. I sure learned a lot. But believe it or not, I think that was partially respondible for getting me out of my ‘block’. (Not the one that Yahoo still has on me). I guess in both cases the ‘bad buy’ really ‘took over’. I can just put your name in the header, but I’m thinking I will concentrate more on the writing. But Iwonder about all of those writing hints on Linked In etc, and especially the helpful ‘prods’ on your ‘post. We’ll see. Thanks, Richard.
Mytsecond response has to do with my relationship to the internet and all the blogs etc. etc. As I have now opened a family account I might keep my internet connections down generally. I am not sure how much I will indeed be able to decrease my on-line activity, but I am definitely going, indeed am, spending more time on Portals. I have discovered that I have indeed learned quite a bit about, among other things, content editing (I’m at the moment jumping all over my book, from one chapter to another, putting in additional scenes, and bringing out conflicts, etc. etc.).
So is this the end? I don’t know. There’s been a bit of magic with respect to the Chroniles of Tober, and that seems to be continuing. Is there another ending coming up?
Well, I don’t know. I don’t know whether I’ll be around to read it because I just don’t know when the end will be. When it comes to purpose and goals, however, that is another end. Please continue writing your magic, whether or not I am physially present. You may be assured that in the afterlife of writing that I am still around. I’m just in that beyond the horizon and beyond the rainbow….
The best.
I can certainly understand your concern. The web world isn’t the cool high-tech place it once was. Now it is nightmarish, and filled with dark corners, nefarious goings on, and evil things living in it. Still, it is the only road that most of us have for reaching a good many people. I hope you can find a way to stick around.
As for Tober Chronicles, it is indeed in its last few bits. Enoch’s travels are nearly at an end, but he has one more “hill” to climb before it can call it done.