Tuesday, December 13, 2011

"Sorrowful" and Jack Ruby

I consider the following piece good writing:

"Mrs. Kennedy walked beside it, her face was sorrowful. She looked steadily at the floor. … Her hand rested lightly on her husband’s coffin as it was taken to a waiting hearse."

There's only one adjective in the piece -- "sorrowful".

By the way, Jack Ruby, who killed JFK's assassin, appears mysterious and suspicious.

Dead people's bodies used to be interred into the ground. Nowadys oftentimes it's the ashes of them which get kept.

What will be the form by which human corpses are kept in the future? Stem cells?

The MOST important battle in Canadian history is the Battle of the Plains of Abraham (a.k.a. the Battle of Quebec) which took place in the siege of the Quebec City in 1759, during the Seven Years' War.

As the French commander General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm lay dying due to a bullet which had hit him on the Plains of Abraham, he said (probably with much regret which he should have expected that the British would scale the very steep cliffs on the riverbank outside Quebec via the Anse au Foulon route), "I am glad I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." On the other hand, the British commander General James Wolfe also lay dying on that battlefield, and he said, "I die happy", after he heard that the French army had just collapsed and been escaping.

What a bitter and tragic battle.

My subtle thoughts only can emerge drizzlingly in quiet settings.

Are there a higher percentage of people who catch some sort of cancer nowadays than before?

Personally I think the noun 'bow' (pronunciation: /bou/) is a fine word.

An arrow flies from a bow, a violin is sounded by a bow, a gift box wears a bow on its top, and a house door presents a red pretty Christmas bow in this holiday season.