The Death of Memories
~~seadancer~~
-Ingrid Bergman, quoted in _Ingrid Bergman A Personal
Biography_ by Charlotte Chandler, 2007, p.497, Large Print.
"I have forgot much, Cynara! Gone with the wind."
-Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) English poet
---Sea
bobgnome
"~~seadancer~~" <seadan...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "The death of memories is the saddest thing I know."
> -Ingrid Bergman, quoted in _Ingrid Bergman A Personal
> Biography_ by Charlotte Chandler, 2007, p.497, Large Print.
[...]
> ---Sea
The memory of all that -
No, No! They can't take that away from me.
--Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)
American songwriter,
"They Can't Take That Away from Me"
(Song from the 1937 musical "Shall We Dance?")
k
Kenneth S.
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day:
Shakespeare: Henry V
("Old Men Forget" is a 1953 autobiography by Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich,
detailing his Victorian childhood, Edwardian youth, and work in literature
and politics. [Wikipedia])
~~seadancer~~
> "~~seadancer~~" wrote
>> "The death of memories is the saddest thing I know."
>> -Ingrid Bergman, quoted in _Ingrid Bergman A Personal
>> Biography_ by Charlotte Chandler, 2007, p.497, Large Print.
>
> No, No! They can't take that away from me.
> --Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)
> American songwriter,
> "They Can't Take That Away from Me"
> (Song from the 1937 musical "Shall We Dance?")
> k
"Memory - all alone in the moonlight.
I can smile at the old days,
I was beautiful then.
I remember the time I knew what happiness was.
Let the memory live again."
-From the Broadway Musical "Cats", premier 1982,
composer Andrew Llyod Webber,
lyricists: T.S. Elliot, Trevor Nunn, & Richard Stilgoe
~~seadancer~~
> "~~seadancer~~" wrote
>> "The death of memories is the saddest thing I know."
>> -Ingrid Bergman, quoted in _Ingrid Bergman A Personal
>> Biography_ by Charlotte Chandler, 2007, p.497, Large Print.
>>
>> "I have forgot much, Cynara! Gone with the wind."
>> -Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) English poet
>> ---Sea
>
> Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
> But he'll remember with advantages
> What feats he did that day:
> Shakespeare: Henry V
> ("Old Men Forget" is a 1953 autobiography by Duff Cooper, Viscount
> Norwich, detailing his Victorian childhood, Edwardian youth, and work in
> literature and politics. [Wikipedia])
"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."
-Cyril Connolly
---Sea
JohnOfR...@gmail.com
> "Kenneth S." <nimr...@verizon.net> wrote
>
> - Show quoted text -
Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind
memories, sweetened thru the ages just like wine,
Quiet thought come floating down
and settle softly to the ground
like golden autumn leaves around my feet,
I touch them and they burst apart with,
sweet memories, sweet memories
...of holding hands and red bouquets
and twilight time and purple haze and
laughing eyes and simple ways and
quiet nights and gentle days with you
(Memories by Elvis Presley; lyrics by Bill Strange & Scott Davis)
Obq:
"Good night and good luck."
Edward R. Murrow
~~seadancer~~
> Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind
> memories, sweetened thru the ages just like wine,
> Quiet thought come floating down
> and settle softly to the ground
> like golden autumn leaves around my feet,
> I touch them and they burst apart with,
> sweet memories, sweet memories
> ...of holding hands and red bouquets
> and twilight time and purple haze and
> laughing eyes and simple ways and
> quiet nights and gentle days with you
> (Memories by Elvis Presley; lyrics by Bill Strange & Scott Davis)
> Obq:
> "Good night and good luck."
> Edward R. Murrow
Lovely song.
"Memories" -words & music by Bill Strange & Scott Davis, sung by Elvis
Presley.
[From: http://lib.ru/SONGS/presley.txt ]
---Sea
ObQ:
"Then I can sit on my back porch at Graceland and remember the good ol'
days."
-Elvis Presley quotes, from:
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art23160.asp
Flykke~
> Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
> But he'll remember with advantages
> What feats he did that day:
>
> Shakespeare: Henry V
Now Mr. Prentice, clearly a most reasonable man, says he has no wish to
offend me but wants to know if I'm some kind of a *nut*. And Mrs.
Prentice says that like her husband I'm a burned-out old shell of a man
who cannot even remember what it's like to love a woman the way her son
loves my daughter. And strange as it seems, that's the first statement
made to me all day with which I am prepared to take issue... cause I
think you're wrong, you're as wrong as you can be. I admit that I hadn't
considered it, hadn't even thought about it, but I know exactly how he
feels about her and there is nothing, absolutely nothing that you son
feels for my daughter that I didn't feel for Christina. Old- yes.
Burned-out- certainly, but I can tell you the memories are still there-
clear, intact, indestructible, and they'll be there if I live to be 110.
~ dialogue, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)[Spencer Tracy as Matt
Drayton]
--
//Flykke ~
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Memories
And the kitties are sleeping
Downstairs in the basement
Where the furnace is creaking.
-David Letterman
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not
completely unhappen.
-- Edward de Bono
--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
-- The Jam
~~seadancer~~
> Memories
> And the kitties are sleeping
> Downstairs in the basement
> Where the furnace is creaking.
> -David Letterman
> Regards,
> KGB
KGB, when and why did Letterman say that?
---Sea
~~seadancer~~
> A memory is what is left when something happens and does not
> completely unhappen.
> -- Edward de Bono
Hi Bruce! Where ya been? I was getting worried when I didn't see you here.
(I'm also wondering what happened to SteveMR200.) Nice to see you return.
Hope we'll see SteveMR200 return too.
(Of course, I'm no one to talk. I come and go.)
---Sea
ObQ: Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Kevin G. Barkes
My mistake; I did that from- er- memory.
The actual verse is:
Midnight, and the kitties are sleeping
Dowstairs by the furnace
While birdies are cheeping.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/letterman/songs/list/
For the first several years of his show on CBS, the theater across the
street from the Ed Sullivan Theatre was the home of the musical
"Cats," so they were mentioned frequently.
In fact, from the very first show:
Paul Newman: (After being introduced in the audience by a clip of Ed
Sullivan)
Where the hell's the singing cats?
Letterman:
No, Paul, this isn't "Cats". Its me, Dave Letterman. This is my new
show from the Ed Sullivan Theatre.
Paul Newman: (Checking his ticket)
Oops, sorry, wrong theatre.
(Gets up and leaves as the audience cheers)
ObQuote:
Those you say they give the public what it wants begin by
underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
-T.S. Eliot
Melodie !!
> Hope we'll see SteveMR200 return too.
> (Of course, I'm no one to talk. I come and go.)
> ---Sea
Woman, you got those come and go blues
Yeah, you got those come and go blues
~ Gregg Allman, lyric, 'Come and Go Blues' (1973)
Round n round, round we go, -
Don't ask me why I stay here, I don't know.
Well maybe I'm a fool to care
~ibid
--
//Melodie !!
~~seadancer~~
>> "Kevin G. Barkes" wrote
Thank you for explaining, Kevin.
I love the humorous repartee!
---Sea
ObQ:
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee,
and just as hard to sleep after. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
~~seadancer~~
> ~~seadancer~~ wrote:
>> Hope we'll see SteveMR200 return too.
>> (Of course, I'm no one to talk. I come and go.)
>> ---Sea
> [...]
> Round n round, round we go, -
> Don't ask me why I stay here, I don't know.
> Well maybe I'm a fool to care
> ~ibid
> //Melodie !!
"It's a matter of finding something you like."
-Line from movie, "The Enchanted Cottage", said by Dorothy McGuire
"You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can
overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches & pains,
and continue to play for a long, long time." -Gordie Howe
"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it,
and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) p, 57,
"The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time"
"I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much,
talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and
loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets
hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries."
-Theodore Isaac Rubin
"Be always drunken.... With wine, with poetry or with virtue...
as you will, but be always drunken!" -Baudelaire
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
-e.e. cummings
"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification
with the nonself that there is no self left to die." -Bernard Berenson
And... a note from the past:
=============================
From: "Karen" <kare...@yahoo.com> [aka Sea]
Subject: Re: Decisions, decisions...
Date: Friday, May 02, 2003 1:48 PM
(From newsgroup post at AFPF, alt.fifty-plus.friends)
[NOTE: "KAREN IS JOY" (Joy is Seadancer)
"The "big, red, shiny, loud motorcycle..." is a metaphor for
whatever we love to do. As for doing what we love, I think
this is absolutely necessary if we are going to be of use
to anybody. If we're not happy, we're not going to be able
to make anyone else happy. If someone's need is to
make other people happy, that's all well and good.
However, that can lead to co-dependency. As I've gotten
older and suffered thru the empty nest stage, I've realized
that I've got to find my own favorite things to do, since I'm
not near family and am able to see them only once a month
or less. So, I'm finally concentrating on other things which
make me happy."
---Karen [aka Seadancer]
PS - This philosophy of doing what we love has always
struck a chord in me.
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---Sea