That is a heading you won't see too often . . .
They're discreet unless you're a royal.
One of the great advantages, indeed as far as I can tell the only advantage from my piont of view, of being a grad of Kings College Cambridge, where I got an MPhil in something useless a quarter century ago, or near enough, is that every year they put out an annual with unsparing and hilarious obits ofa ll the members of the College that died that that year. I'll never be able to read mine, of course, but it is a comfort to know that they will nail my sorry ass to the wall in elegant prose.
I have written here about Sraffa's obit in that annual. It included the following exchange. "Were you the Fourth Man, Piero?" (This was before Blunt was outed.) "He made indescribable Italian gesture of the hand. 'I forget which number I was.'"
jks
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> >The received wisdom now is that Denis Thatcher was
> far
> >from being a gin-soaked old bigot. Well, up to a
> >point.
>
> God, I love Brit obits. No piety at all.
>
> So the piece does mention her Alzheimer's. But I
> asked around in
> London and it wasn't widely known - not like
> Ronnie's here. Despite
> the rude obits, they're so discreet in life.
>
> Doug
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