[lbo-talk] Re: sad songs

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Jun 25 17:08:02 PDT 2005


frank scott wrote:
>
> how about this oldie: (title, and first line)
>
> "why was i born?
>
> why am i living?"
>
> ah rest mah case...
>

A proverb in ancient Greece (quoted, or more accurately paraphrased, from memory): Best is not to have been born; having been born, best is to go hence quickly.

Carrol



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