h is for the many hallelujahs you give us a is for the apple in your alan p is for the poetry you give us p is for more of the poetry you give us y is for ky-yai-yippie eye- ay! for alan on his birthday
b is for the bumper crop of work you give us i is for the deconstruction of and yet insistence on the "I" that you give us r is for the representational problematics you constantly undercut in your work t is for the terrible beauty of your work h is for the happiness of your work d is for the depth of your work a is for Alan, juicy and sweet y is for the many "why"s you so relentlessly pursue in your work a is for the A+ we would undoubtedly give you if you were our student l is for the litany of praises we unfurl around you on your birthday a is for the apex of bliss that we wish you on your birthday n is for the end of this little birthday ditty. At 12:16 AM -0500 2/3/06, Alan Sondheim wrote:
Today Elliott, Ebenezer - Corn Law Rhymer: Birthday, Deathday Elyot, Thomas - Eminent English writer: Deathday; Emery, John - Comic actor: Deathday Lucilio: Deathday; Vanloo, Charles Andrew - Historical painter: Deathday; Vansittart, Nicolas - Lord Bexley, English statesman: Birthday; Varney, William - Poet and scholar: Birthday, Deathday; Jonson, Ben - Dramatist: Birthday, Biography · On his testimony to the merit of Edward Alleyn founder Publius Ovidius - Roman poet: Birthday, Deathday; Nauddè, Gabriel - Littèrateur: Necker, Jacques - French financial minister: Birthday, Deathday Immanuel - Philosopher: Birthday, Deathday; Kaufmann, Maria Angelica - Portrait-painter: Deathday; Alan Sondheim - pioneer nerd: Birthday; Kay-Shuttleworth, James Phillips - Promoter of Firmin - Genovese theological writer: Birthday, Deathday; Abbott, Charles - Eminent Antoinette, Marie - Queen of Louis XVI: Birthday, Deathday Faber, George Stanley - Theological writer: Birthday; Fabian, Robert - Chronicler: Deathday; Fabricius, John Albert - Scholar and editor: Birthday King of England: Birthday, Deathday; Henry IV - King of England: Birthday, Deathday · Prophecies of his death · His overthrowing of Richard II - Political writer: Deathday; Rameau, Jean-Philippe - Writer of operas: Birthday; Rampaine, Liveman: On St. Marks Eve superstition of seeing Thomas Noon - Dramatist and lawyer: Birthday, Deathday Taylor, Brook - Algebraist: Birthday, Deathday; Taylor, Jeremy - Bishop, birthday deathday
