On Oct 15, 8:41*am, Injun Joe wrote:
On Oct 14, 5:59*pm, Giles wrote:





After some hundreds of pages of Edmund Morris's "Colonel
Roosevelt" (it's impossible to tell just how many on this stupid
Kindle) we come to the inevitable denouement. *Teddy has died and been
buried.

Morris says, "Given the poignancy of his sufferings over the last
year, a considerable minority of Roosevelt-haters elected to keep
their opinions private for the time being. *Even H.L. Mencken reserved
fire. *'The man was a liar, a braggart, a bully, and a fraud,' he
wrote a friend. *'But let us not speak evil of the dead.'"

Nearly stupefying.

Cluelessness on a scale hitherto encountered only here, in these
pages.....or sardonic wit worthy of Twain, Wilde
or.....yes.....Mencken.

Either way, nearly stupefying. * * * *

giles

Joe the Elder offers----well at least he took some interesting hikes
in South America--[where he almost died]

He also took some other interesting hikes......where a LOT of things
died.

--did he not do something
about parks that we have enjoyed ?

So I've heard.....though all that took place before the stage in his
life covered by "Colonel Roosevelt."

Seems he lived to accomplish rather
than worry about *comments upon his death !

Interesting observation......could be read a number of distinctly (and
importantly) different ways. I'll take it straight up. Yes, he
accomplished rather a lot. Perhaps more than any other well-known
public figure in American history.....so far.

That said, probably few others gave much more thought to comments
about their deaths.....and that ain't necessarily a bad thing.

giles.
who has not yet lived to accomplish his own demise.....but is working
on it.