Brava. Multissima brava, Signora.

ted
who wondered where you'd gone to


"Rita" wrote in message
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> "Ted Gittinger" wrote in message
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> > "Chas Hurst" wrote in message
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> > > "Lee" wrote in message
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> > > > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:56:02 -0500, "Chas Hurst"
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >Abe Lincoln did, remember Gettysburgh?
> > > >
> > > > No, I'm not that old. (G)
> > > >
> > > > Actually, the Gettyburg occasion wasn't a soldier's funeral, it was
a
> > > > dedication as I recall.
> > >
> > > I thought you weren't that old.
> > > It could be construed as both a dedication and a memorial. No matter,
> the
> > > Address is as fine a piece of oratory as was ever spoken.
> >
> > I just tested myself, and discovered that the ancient grey cells still
can
> > summon those words verbatim. Now that is astonishing, for a man who
> cannot
> > remember what he had for dinner last night.
> >
> > I wonder if there isn't something to be said for rote learning, even in
> this
> > enlightened age.
>
> Lessee, from memory:
>
> Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this
continent
> a new nation, conveived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that
all
> men are created equal. Now we are engaged in at great civil war, testing
> whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long
> endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to
> dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who
here
> gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and
> proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate,
we
> cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this groud. The brave men, living and
> dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to
add
> or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here,
> but it can never forget what they did here.
>
> Blah blah blah, forget forget forget...
>
> ...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall
> not perish from the earth.
>
> Not bad, since I'm reciting from memory my own performance in front of an
> eighth-grade English class.
>
> Bows, (sort of)
> Rita
>
>
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