He was a man that could be both charismatic and intelligent
He will be mourned
and missed
Douglas Barbour wrote:
> >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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