>I heard this morning that old Trudeau has shuffled off this
>mortal coil. So, Canadians, please sharpen your elegiac
>pencils and see what you can come up with.
>
>(I hope Canada will produce no sickening displays of
>national 'mourning', though...)
>
We are mourning, Kari
for, whatever else might be thought of him,
he was perhaps the most intelligent person to lead a country in our time.
As to elegies, well, I am no poet laureate, so I don't know, but maybe some
others will try...
A friend sent a great quote from Mary Renault's The Last of the Wine: 'They
can say what they like, but when he led us we had a man.'
I'd accept that.
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
You may allow me moments
not monuments, I being
content. It is little,
but it is little enough.
John Newlove
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