Posted by Atticus on January 21, 2005, at 15:05:04
In reply to One Perfect Rose by Dorothy Parker, posted by TofuEmmy on January 21, 2005, at 14:19:07
This is a terrific poem -- it's so Dorothy Parker. As a member of the famed Algonquin Round Table of humorists that met for lunch, she easily held her own with writers like S.J. Perelman (wrote Grouch Marx's dialogue in movies) and Robert Benchley (whose son Peter, oddly enough, would gain world fame writing about a really, really big carnivorous fish -- a story that a 25-year-old Steven Spielberg would turn into the first big summer blockbuster movie). When told that the famously reserved President Calvin Coolidge had died, she replied, "How can they tell?" Thanks for sharing this. ;) Atticus
poster:Atticus
thread:445267
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/write/20050118/msgs/445290.html