Lines on Nabokov's (& Todd's) birthday

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Post #282,836

by rcareaga

4/23/07 8:48:00 PM

Lines on Nabokov's (& Todd's) birthday - 4/23/82

Penned 25 years ago on the intended occasion of an illicit liaison, RC being in the event left figuratively waiting at the altar:

Tryst Missed

The best-laid plans
Don't always pan
The best-planned lays
Gang aft agley—
I wonder what Robt. Burns would say?

The spoke in the wheel turned out to be utterly trivial, but the opening, toward which I'd been moving my pieces at that point for a dozen years, never came round again. Given that down the line relations between the principals and the secondaries fell universally apart, I still regret that the stars were so perversely misaligned on a date to which I woke with my hopes priapically high. I hope that you had a good sixteenth birthday, or whatever it was, Todd B.

cordially,

Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.

Post #282,883

by tuberculosis

4/24/07 10:33:47 AM

8/21/07 5:44:12 AM

Amusing

We posture as apostles of fair play, as good sportsmen, as professional knights-errant-- and we throw beer bottles at the umpire when he refuses to cheat for our side...We save the black-and-tan republics from their native [statesmen]--and flood them with "deserving" democrats of our own. We deafen the world with our whoops for liberty--and submit to laws that destroy our most sacred rights...We play policeman and Sunday-school superintendent to half of Christendom--and lynch a darky every two days in our own backyard.

H.L. Mencken, 1914

Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 05:44:12 AM EDT

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Happy birthday, Todd! (ToddBlanchard) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (23) - April 23, 2007, 12:19:24 AM EDT

Happy Birthday! -NT - (imric) - April 23, 2007, 02:21:42 AM EDT

Make some nice smalltalk at your party... ;-) -NT - (CRConrad) - April 23, 2007, 02:25:51 AM EDT

Happy birthday, Todd! -NT - (Steve Lowe) - April 23, 2007, 03:30:10 AM EDT

Happy birthday Todd. -NT - (Silverlock) - April 23, 2007, 05:57:11 AM EDT

Have a great time, Todd. Happy Birthday. -NT - (Another Scott) - April 23, 2007, 06:36:59 AM EDT

HB2U! -NT - (Yendor) - April 23, 2007, 08:46:47 AM EDT

oh happy day! -NT - (bepatient) - April 23, 2007, 09:09:25 AM EDT

Another one bites the dust! -NT - (jake123) - April 23, 2007, 09:17:57 AM EDT

Ar, it be a great day for great men! ;-) -NT - (admin) - April 23, 2007, 09:30:17 AM EDT

Thanks muchly - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:41:28 AM EDT

Better late than never - Happy Birthday -NT - (jbrabeck) - April 23, 2007, 02:07:50 PM EDT

Sail On --> into the sunset (lucky bastridge!) - (Ashton) - (5) - April 23, 2007, 05:38:06 PM EDT

Have later rule changes made it permissible,as "ultralight"? -NT - (CRConrad) - (4) - April 24, 2007, 03:18:55 AM EDT

Most certainly - (tuberculosis) - (3) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:44:08 AM EDT

Nah.. all the troops woulda Loved It - - (Ashton) - (2) - April 24, 2007, 10:57:55 PM EDT

Anon exposed: John Greenleaf Whittier! - (CRConrad) - (1) - April 25, 2007, 03:46:18 AM EDT

Boffo find.. - (Ashton) - April 25, 2007, 04:22:01 PM EDT

Hope you're having a good one - (Lily) - (1) - April 23, 2007, 06:28:37 PM EDT

There was - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:44:14 AM EDT

Lines on Nabokov's (& Todd's) birthday - 4/23/82 - (rcareaga) - (1) - April 23, 2007, 08:48:00 PM EDT

Amusing -NT - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:44:12 AM EDT

Belated wishes from here! -NT - (Nightowl) - April 24, 2007, 04:06:15 PM EDT

HB, T! -NT - (Meerkat) - April 24, 2007, 09:33:24 PM EDT

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