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Re: Money can't buy life
By: Lyn Date: August 22, 2024, 5:57 am
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True, death comes to all regardless of financial status. It is
the great leveller.
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Re: Money can't buy life
By: guest18 Date: August 22, 2024, 6:26 am
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[quote author=Lyn link=topic=237.msg18527#msg18527
date=1724324269]
True, death comes to all regardless of financial status. It is
the great leveller.
[/quote]
I agree.
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Re: Money can't buy life
By: Gregory Date: August 22, 2024, 6:34 am
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Another aspect of the tragedy is something I've read about in a
couple of articles. Apparently, many people think that the
Mediterranean always has calm weather as it's a relatively small
inland sea and with a benevolent climate. However, apparently
that's a misapprehension as the reality is that violent storms
can blow up within minutes, drastically interrupting calm,
sunny weather. Perhaps nobody aboard the yacht was aware of
that.
As for ironies, another is that the yacht was moored in the
Straits of Messina between Sicily and Italy, the locations on
either shore of the mythical monsters Scylla and Charybdis which
produced the bad weather as Odysseus sailed through on his
return to Ithaca. It also gave rise to the expression "between
Scylla and Charybdis", a more classical version of the popular
cliché "between a rock and a hard place".
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Re: Money can't buy life
By: Lyn Date: August 23, 2024, 6:00 am
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We must never be complacent about the sea. Odysseus certainly
found that out :-).
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Re: Money can't buy life
By: Gregory Date: August 23, 2024, 7:09 am
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[quote author=Lyn link=topic=237.msg18562#msg18562
date=1724410821]
We must never be complacent about the sea. Odysseus certainly
found that out :-).
[/quote]
True (about the sea, the sea*), but Odysseus managed to get past
Scylla and Charybdis, although Scylla got six of his men, and
returned to Ithaca safely, Homerward bound (in a leather
edition, of course...)
(* Thanks Iris.)
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Re: Money can't buy life
By: Lyn Date: August 23, 2024, 10:05 am
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He certainly got about, and met some interesting people (though
they weren't all 'people').
I did Odysseus in my first year at secondary school, from the
first term. i absolutely loved it and still remember quite a
lot to this day.
For a bit of light relief, the Simpsons did an episode featuring
Odysseus with Homer playing him and Marge playing his wife.
Other members of the Simpson's characters played different
parts. It was very funny. The episode is called "Tales from
the Public Domain' and features three mini-plays, the first
being Odysseus, the second about Joan of Arc and the final,
Hamlet. If I could find that episode I would watch it again.
HTML https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0763038/
Here is an extract, Marge's two older sisters (Patty and Selma,
twins), play the Sirens. It's not long enough, I want the
entire episode!
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkOfX7VICpk
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Re: Money can't buy life
By: Gregory Date: August 23, 2024, 11:08 am
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"For a bit of light relief, the Simpsons did an episode
featuring Odysseus with Homer playing him..."
Very appropriate, of course, with Homer having the same name as
the author of The Odyssey (and The Iliad.) I read them many
years ago but it was all Greek to me.
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Re: Money can't buy life
By: Lyn Date: August 23, 2024, 12:06 pm
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Thinking now it was not appropriate for me to have gone on about
The Simpsons, I had almost forgotten what this thread is really
about. I didn't mean any harm and won't remove my post but do
remember Mike Lynch, his daughter and the crew who lost their
lives. Here is his obituary from the Guardian:
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/aug/22/mike-lynch-obituary
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Re: Money can't buy life
By: Gregory Date: August 23, 2024, 12:48 pm
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Tragic enough for Lynch himself, but he was 59 years old and had
already lived a full, satisfying life but the heartbreaking
tragedy is the death of his 18-yearold daughter Hannah, a
remarkable young woman with a glittering future; such a terrible
loss. This is from The Telegraph (paywall prevents me from
putting a link to the whole article.):
Friends and family of Mike Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah
have said that “for her to be taken on the precipice of her life
is cruel beyond belief” after her body was recovered from the
Bayesian superyacht. A talented student, Ms Lynch was a scholar
at Latymer Upper School, in west London, where she was a regular
prize-winner. She had won a place at the University of Oxford to
read English and joined friends and family on the Bayesian to
celebrate after receiving her A-level results last week.
Colleagues, friends and business leaders all paid tribute to the
teenager, describing her as “charming and ferociously
intelligent”.
Jon Mitropoulos-Monk, the head of English at Latymer Upper
School, said: “I’ve never taught someone who combined sky-high
intellectual ability with warmth and enthusiasm in the way
Hannah did. “She lit up the classroom with her energy, passion
for learning and sheer intelligence, though never with a hint of
arrogance. One of the best English students in the country, she
scored 100 per cent in her English literature GCSE. “By age 16,
she’d read Joyce, Faulkner and Nabokov. Beyond that, she
devoured the writings of Angela Carter, Joseph Conrad and John
Donne. She loved literature, learning and life. She was so
excited to start studying English at Oxford, a goal she had
worked so hard towards.
“When she got her place, she sought out every single member of
the Latymer Upper English department to thank them individually
and give them a hug. She achieved everything she did with
extraordinary levels of grace and fortitude that few others can
say they possess. “I taught Hannah for four years. I will
remember her for what she taught me – kindness, compassion and
commitment."
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Re: Money can't buy life
By: Lyn Date: August 23, 2024, 3:06 pm
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Tha really did bring a lump to my throat. Goodness knows how
her mother and sister are going to get over this, or at least
come to terms with it.
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