A blog reader urgently wanted to use the second poem at https://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/the-famous-funeral-poem for a real funeral, and asked for the author. Wondering if the idea was called off because it wasn’t from someone famous and deceased… It’s interesting how things from anyone seem more valuable the instant the person is gone.
But I can understand why this is so. First, the value increases because the person is no longer able to churn up new works. Second, the person’s life can then be deemed more or less faultless enough to be worth quoting from. Third, the person is currently a ‘nobody’. (Condolences again, to the bereaved. Amituofo.)
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Dead Teachers’ Society
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