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Death before forty’s no bar. Lo!
These had accomplished their feats;
Chatterton, Burns, and Kit Marlowe,
Byron and Shelley and Keats.
Death, the eventual censor,
Lays for the forties, and so
Took off Jane Austen and Spenser,
Stephenson, Hood, and poor Poe.
You’ll leave a better-lined wallet
By reaching the end of your rope
After fifty, like Shakespeare and Smollett
Thackeray, Dickens, and Pope.
Try for the sixties — but say, boy,
That’s when the tombstones were built on
Butler and Sheridan, the play boy,
Arnold and Coleridge and Milton.
Three score and ten — the tides rippling
Over the bar; slip the hawser.
Godspeed to Clemens and Kipling,
Swinburne and Browning and Chaucer.
Some staved the debt off but paid it
At eighty — that’s after the law.
Wordsworth and Tennyson made it,
And Meredith, Hardy, and Shaw.
But, Death, while you make up your quota,
Please note this confession of candor —
That I wouldn’t give an iota
To linger till ninety, like Landor.
Marilyn Monroe and Sheilah Graham at Ciro’s Nightclub
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A Supposedly Run Thing I'll Probably Do Again -
I started a running blog. The impossible is here.
It’s about having no athletic prowess whatsoever and still trying anyway. I never got picked for the team growing up, but I get picked every time when I run. Because I’m the WHOLE TEAM. Works like magic.
Please read it and feel physically superior!
Stanley Kubrick’s pictures of NYC life in the 1940s are the greatest.
No, thank YOU.
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So I’m recapping Downton Abbey for TIME Magazine this season. It brings me almost as much happiness as watching Maggie Smith do battle with overgrown bouquets. Enjoy!
Ryan Gosling Works in Publishing may be my favorite version of the meme yet.
(Source: ryangoslingpublishing)