28 November 2012

Homonymy

Oh how I love to read the obituaries in the good grey lady. Today's was a gem.

From the second paragraph:
"The cause was complications of liver cancer..."

From the third paragraph:

"Flamboyant and loquacious, wealthy and generous, Mr. Richards was a high roller in the theater world, and a high liver..."

Swoon. Liver, liver.

12 comments:

  1. De3:40 PM

    It was organic to his nature. He was, after all, "a walking heart."

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  2. Magpie3:54 PM

    Yeah De! I was going to work the heart in too, but I decided to cut and run. Glad you mentioned it!

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  3. Anonymous5:52 PM

    Delightful.

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  4. Rima6:42 PM

    Love it.

    I have a friend who's grandmother read the obits every day, then crossed the names out of the phone book.

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  5. Rima6:43 PM

    Ack! I misspelled "who's"! Now I won't be able to sleep tonight!

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  6. Rima6:44 PM

    I mean, "whose." Okay, I'll stop now.

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  7. Ilina10:11 AM

    Oh, this is just grand.

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  8. leanne2:57 PM

    How I love words. And I love what De added.

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  9. niobe3:30 PM

    Or, as they say in French:

    --La vie vaut-elle la peine?

    --Question de foie.

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  10. alejna11:13 PM

    That is lovely. And given the attention to words in the obituary, it pleases me to think that it was a deliberate play with words.

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  11. Ozma4:06 PM

    Damn, can you imagine that guy's apartment?

    It's a palace. Probably on 5th Avenue. Honestly, in my next life I want to be that guy.

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  12. Kelley @ magneto bold too8:08 PM

    Fabulous. And I reckon he wrote it himself.

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