woody-beagle-anddusey - The Monday Morning Memo

The Woodster and me,
one day when we were out adventuring,
stylin’ with a Duesenberg that belonged to
the angel with just one wing who was known
as The Queen of Diamonds.

The BeagleSword was a blur of fur
and the rabbit hole was absent a rabbit
unless we count the one that belonged
to Abraham Lincoln but we won’t.

“So raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways,
all my underdogs!” – Pink, Raise Your Glass, Oct. 2010

Wizzo’s business partner, Michele Miller, says she
has adopted the following as her new life’s motto:

It reminds me of something Woody might have said.

“His terrible gorings, his months in the hospitals, which used up all his money, had no effect on his valor at all. But it was a strange valor. It never fired you; it was not contagious. You saw it, appreciated it and knew the man was brave, but somehow it was as though courage was a syrup rather than a wine or the taste of salt and ashes in your mouth. If qualities have odors the odor of courage to me is the smell of smoked leather or the smell of a frozen road or the smell of the sea when the wind rips the top from a wave, but the valor of Luis Freg did not have that odor. It was clotted and heavy and there was a thin part underneath that was unpleasant and oozy and when he is dead I will tell you about him and it is a strange-enough story.”

- Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon, p. 263-264

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