Oh this is lovely! We should compile a birthday list here, writing each
other greetings...
love to everyone, Alan-with-a-headache!
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Maria Damon wrote:
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
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Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General
directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .
