In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Rimbaud

Really excellent quotes recently, Bethberry.

Thanks, Rimsy. Yours ain't so bad either.

And now the season of remembrance has passed and so goes

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember, and there's pansies, that's for thoughts.

To be replaced by more seasonal faire, for which I offer a fuller quotation here than the stingy signature limit allows.

Originally Posted by Dylan Thomas

It was on the afternoon of the day of Christmas Eve, and I was in Mrs. Prothero's garden, waiting for cats, with her son Jim. It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, although there were no reindeers. But there were cats. Patient, cold and callous, our hands wrapped in socks, we waited to snowball the cats. Sleek and long as jaguars and horrible-whiskered, spitting and snarling, they would slide and sidle over the white back-garden walls, and the lynx-eyed hunters, Jim and I, fur-capped and moccasined trappers from Hudson Bay, off Mumbles Road, would hurl our deadly snowballs at the green of their eyes. A Child's Christmas in Wales

There now! There's cats and Christmas and Canada all rolled into one.

[Bêthberry]

Well now, it appears I am single-handedly keeping this thread alive. Go me.

Adieu to the seasonal one from Dylan Thomas:

It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, although there were no reindeers. But there were cats. A Child's Christmas in Wales

And hello to something for the new year, which, for a change of pace, contains nothing about cats:

as intimate -- as fugitive
As Sunset on the snow --

[Estelyn Telcontar]

In anticipation of my fifth death day this coming week, I am laying my current signature to rest and going back to my very first one - to be seen in post #1 of this thread! (Actually, I can't use the first one in its entirety - the Gandalf/Pippin quote is too long, so I have taken only the second part.)

Tolkien predicted the Barrow-Downs forum: "...talks a reader might have with other people who have read the tale; they might lead to sharing of pleasure, or to debate on disagreements; and so lead even to a second reading."

This quote describes what I've found in my years on the Downs!

[The Might]

the first post...that's like an age ago

Anyway, I thought that my

He who arises in Might

signature was a little bit cheesy, so I chose a new, perhaps more fitting one, because I too ask myself what it is that makes people search so much for sheer information

[Elmo]

and Eru Illuvatar said from upon high - "Tee hee, isn't smiting fun"

Getting rid of this, a bit stale and it probably offended people... but I wonder if anyone ever clicked on the link

[Anguirel]

This must be the shortest tenure one of my signatures has ever had - about four hours - but farewell

The Americans eat cranberry sauce with their turkey at one of their jollifications - Independence Day or something. Quite good it is, too.

-W.M.W. Fowler

I shall revive that at some point, but necessity, and the poignant wit of Patrick Boyle, Earl of Glasgow, demands its replacement -

"As a hereditary peer, I have already been abolished once and I don't particularly want to be abolished again. Not quite yet anyway. It really is very unsettling."

[The Elf-warrior]

This clip is funny in a moronic way.

A sea monster ate my ice cream!