[lbo-talk] Saddam Died Beautiful (The eXile gets all misty-eyedover Saddam)

[Carl Remick]

All this yadda-yadda about beautiful death by hanging reminds me of the 
memorable eulogy for the suicide-by-hanging character Francis Hinsely, a 
Hollywood has-been, in Evelyn Waugh's "The Loved One":

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"They told me, Francis Hinsley, they told me you were hung
With red protruding eyeballs and black protruding tongue;
I wept as I remembered how often you and I
Had laughed about Los Angeles and now 'tis here you'll lie;
Here pickled in formaldehyde and painted like a whore,
Shrimp-pink incorruptible, nor lost nor gone before."
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That itself is apparently a takeoff on Heraclitus
<http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/380.html>

Carl

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