Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

          And Then She Wrote


    I finished typing. It’s actually really short. We were chatting more and then she wrote...
    And then she wrote in a bold hand and turned the tiny light on it. And then she wrote 'What is it for?' And then she wrote to Ellen: "There were in his proposal," she said, "some things which might have proved a strong temptation. And then she wrote, "Michael, I love you.”
    It was her hand that held the pen. I married her and then she wrote the story .... kind of. She wrote: Two types.
    And then she wrote on a piece of paper a sentence that established a second character. Another HER. And then she wrote a prayer.
    She asked him to hum things, and then she wrote them down and they just sparkled and then she wrote a short fiction around the water theme and I think I controlled her hands for a few bars at a time, and then she wrote down the notes, and then she wrote to me: 'My heart still aches. She wrote kind and beautiful words that had deep meaning for me.
    I said yeah and then she wrote some other stuff down on the clipboard. A question or two.
    She looked at the question for a while, and then she wrote, “not supposed to”.
    He wrote, “Do you know why?”
    She wrote, “people die”. And then, she wrote, "It happens."

    And then she wrote: “I want to write how I am and who I am so they will know me”

    And then he wrote a book, made a movie and pretty much babbled on. She babbled on. I babbled on. And they babbled on and on. Not so interesting is the "and-then-he-wrote, and-then-he-wrote."
    He wrote nothing and then he wrote again and there was some waiting and then he wrote tender letters again and again. He wrote, “Do you know why?”
    She wrote, “people die”.

    And then he wrote in the sand from Galveston. You wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?"
    He wrote in the sand with his finger and then took a picture. And then he wrote the second line, and the second line had to be answered, and then he wrote the third line. She thought it looked fine there, and then she wrote her own name, in red, right under it.

    And then he wrote a letter to his old home. It came back undelivered. The next day he paid a visit to his old home, to his old home at Surprise Hill. (Leaves the prison gates, he makes his way to his old home, but his old home is not there.) “A pleasant surprise?" Hill said, I wanted it to be a surprise,” Hill said. “I knew it would be a joyous moment. You could see how it lifted them.” Masterful editing has lifted them out of the ordinary.
    And then he wrote this, which touched my heart ... this story touched my heart:
    He could build a log house himself, and then he wrote poetry.
    I always wanted to build a log house ... everyone could build a log house with their own hands if they have a dream to build a log house. So it's Time to Open the Prison Gates!!!!

    Then he wrote to me ordinary things that touched the heart and moved the soul, such as “the pellet lodged in or touched the heart when Whittington was shot.”
Long, long time ago there lived a poor boy called Dick Whittington. He had no mother and no father, and often nothing to eat. One day he heard of the great city of London, where, said everyone, even the streets were paved with gold. How was it done? What is it?
  How Is It done to get the maximum out of the grooves? the age-old dirt out of the grooves? ink out of the grooves? Double helix out of the grooves. Get the last of the fluid out of the grooves. Out of the grooves -- using a paint scraper, toothbrush bristles, or even toothpicks or large sewing needles. He did this, and then he wrote to me and asked me how it was done.

    How is it done? ... How is it done?

    And then he wrote to me that he was going to speak ... going to speak about these matters today,'' he said. "I was just a little confused ... now I am going to speak for myself.” When he heard how ill poor mamma was, then he wrote to me—twice. You may see his letters if you like. Poor mamma was tired with holding so big a girl for so long,
    Mom suddenly screamed:" you are already so big a girl!” Just the thought of so big a girl! Poor mamma was always very particular about that! It all seemed very complicated. She wrote to me: 'My heart still aches.’ She wrote to me for money, and I sent it again and again. I was a fool, a big one, and I send the money,
    And then... he wrote to me, in a very strange way, one more time. “That's all she wrote”, he wrote.
    Now, in case you didn’t know, That's all she wrote is used to indicate the end of something...
    So! That was all she wrote.

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Monday, August 11, 2008

President McKinley Clutched His Chest


    When the retiree got up to bowl in the fifth frame of his second game, he clutched his chest and fell over, and efforts to revive him failed. They thought she was just being friendly until she clutched her chest and collapsed. After dropping the gate, and while still standing on the rear of the trailer, [Decedent] clutched his chest and fell to the ground.
    That is when the queen clutched her chest and fell to the floor.
    Within 10 minutes of receiving this, the patient sat up in bed, clutched his chest and said, "This is the worst chest pain I've ever had in my life. She clutched her chest. Gold confetti fell on her tear-streaked cheeks, and on the large Iraqi. A fleck of dust rose from Jackson's coat and his left hand clutched his chest. She put down her pizza, clutched her chest, gurgled loudly, and threw herself. He clutched his chest, then made a motion to reach for the ball on the ground to pick it up and throw to first base. In the middle of a lecture our professor suddenly clutched his chest and started shouting breathlessly for some water. She clutched her chest and wept when she learned of her neighbor's death. "He didn't deserve this," she said. "He was a very nice man.”
    He tried to help the older woman inside move the car. When he reached for the door handle, he said, she clutched her chest. "I hit really hard," said Vincent, who rolled over and clutched his chest after being upended. She testified that she clutched her chest and thought she was dying.
    I actually thought that I imagined that he clutched his chest.
    Jessica clutched her chest, looked like a trapped deer, tears welled into... He was teaching his tune Joy Spring to a Cambodian teenager last week when he suddenly clutched his chest and died. As she ate, she suddenly clutched her chest, gasped, gazed at her daughter, and died, falling from her chair. He was impaled and clutched his chest to wrench free the spear. She probably clutched her chest like she always does when something takes... And then, 'course, he clutched his chest, and they immediately sped up. Real fast, you know. He tried to help the woman, but she reportedly clutched her chest before the accident. 
"I think she maybe mistook the gas for the brake." A backup wide receiver clutched his chest and fell to the ground. She burst out screaming, clutched her chest. He clutched his chest and walked a few yards before collapsing. And despite efforts to revive him... She clutched her chest and her hip when the roof blew off her bamboo home. Jordan clutched his chest and pounded furiously on his cell door. "He had his ups and downs, but he was no problem," said his grandmother, as she clutched her chest and wept. The wounded president dropped his cane, clutched his chest with his right hand.
    Do you know what to do if your customer suddenly clutched her chest and passed out? McKinley looked confused and rose up on his toes, clutched his chest. She said that she would kill the dogs as well as herself, and clutched her chest. Arthur instinctively clutched his chest wound and ducked his head.
    They thought she was just being friendly until she clutched her chest and collapsed. Dust rose from Jackson's coat and his left hand clutched his chest.
    She clutched her chest and sighed: “To have gotten the pink, uh,...”
    Charles clutched his chest and writhed in agony after falling on a steep bank. She clutched her chest, and my partner says the monitor went "crazy". Took one look at the monitor, let out a terrible scream, clutched her chest and fell dead upon the floor.
    McKinley looked confused and rose up on his toes, clutched his chest, and leaned forward.


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