Oh, Hap-Hap-Happiest o' B-Days, Frank! You're lookin' like a million Buicks, eh? But, what better day for the entire Books, Inq. Flank To thank you for all the joys you've brought our way?
Here's the last poem in E.E. Cummings' Collected Poems: 1922-1938:
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you shall above all things be glad and young. For if you're young,whatever life you wear
it will become you;and if you are glad whatever's living will yourself become. Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need: i can entirely her only love
whose any mystery makes every man's flesh put space on;and his mind take off time
that you should ever think,may god forbid and(in his mercy)your true lover spare: for that way knowledge lies,the foetal grave called progress,and negation's dead undoom.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
Erp, I forgot the most important thing! (Please, Bill Peschel, forgive me for this overslight; I know I ought to have done so; and, I am sory I didn't; but, all is not lost!):
Frank: Here is a page with the important events, b-days and d-days that happened on yours (and, some of the stuff that happened on this day will blow you away!). You were born on a Tuesday, yes? I *think* you were; but, you know better than I do; anyway? The year you were born? Here's the low-down on what was up:
FDR, Prez HAW, Veep
Top Books: Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler); Call It Courage (Armstrong Sperry)
Top Tune: Chattanooga Choo Choo (Glenn Miller)
Best Picture: How Green Was My Valley (Directed By John Ford) Best Actor: Gary Cooper (Sergeant York) Best Actress: Joan Fontain (Suspicion)
Someone else, surely, can provide your Astrological Problematics :); I am still working on discovering what, exactly, said items involve (but, never fear, Dave Roscoe's on the case!) Jf/ox
Let me echo that, Frank: A thousand felicitations on your anniversaire!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Frank! The sun is shining and the flowers in the gardens of England (south-east quadrant) are out in your honour! Have a lovely day.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Frank!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Frank! Why, even the Verreaux's sifakas are dancing for joy.
ReplyDeleteHere's the last poem in E.E. Cummings' Collected Poems: 1922-1938:
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you shall above all things be glad and young.
For if you're young,whatever life you wear
it will become you;and if you are glad
whatever's living will yourself become.
Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need:
i can entirely her only love
whose any mystery makes every man's
flesh put space on;and his mind take off time
that you should ever think,may god forbid
and(in his mercy)your true lover spare:
for that way knowledge lies,the foetal grave
called progress,and negation's dead undoom.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
.
Erp, I forgot the most important thing! (Please, Bill Peschel, forgive me for this overslight; I know I ought to have done so; and, I am sory I didn't; but, all is not lost!):
ReplyDeleteFrank: Here is a page with the important events, b-days and d-days that happened on yours (and, some of the stuff that happened on this day will blow you away!). You were born on a Tuesday, yes? I *think* you were; but, you know better than I do; anyway? The year you were born? Here's the low-down on what was up:
FDR, Prez
HAW, Veep
Top Books: Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler); Call It Courage (Armstrong Sperry)
Top Tune: Chattanooga Choo Choo (Glenn Miller)
Best Picture: How Green Was My Valley (Directed By John Ford)
Best Actor: Gary Cooper (Sergeant York)
Best Actress: Joan Fontain (Suspicion)
Bread: $0.08/loaf
Milk: $0.34/gal
Eggs: $0.60/doz
Car: $925
Gas: $0.19/gal
House: $6,954
Stamp: $0.03/ea
Avg Income: $2,059/yr
Min Wage: $0.30/hr
DOW Avg: 111
Someone else, surely, can provide your Astrological Problematics :); I am still working on discovering what, exactly, said items involve (but, never fear, Dave Roscoe's on the case!) Jf/ox
Happy birthday, belatedly, Frank!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Frank from another Frank who's birthday is this week!
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