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| The Appointment in Samarra; Some events remind me of this | |
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| big al | Dec 8 2006, 02:15 PM Post #1 |
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Bull-Carp
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"The Appointment in Samarra" (as retold by W. Somerset Maugham [1933]) The speaker is Death. There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture, now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threating getsture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| Kincaid | Dec 8 2006, 03:03 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It was the salmon mousse! |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| Frank_W | Dec 8 2006, 08:08 PM Post #3 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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"But I didn't even EAT the soup!!" |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Kincaid | Dec 8 2006, 08:55 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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"Englishmen, you're all so f**king pompous. None of you have got any balls. Shut up, you American. You Americans, all you do is talk, and talk, and say "let me tell you something" and "I just wanna say." Well, you're dead now, so shut up." |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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