tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post7390243189028076747..comments2024-03-27T15:41:01.956-04:00Comments on rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague: Remembrance of things past (part the second)rhymeswithplaguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-38438262188872167222013-10-21T15:12:12.306-04:002013-10-21T15:12:12.306-04:00Snowbrush et al, John Howard Griffin went blind du...<b>Snowbrush et al,</b> John Howard Griffin went blind during World War II after a plane crash in the South Pacific. He came home and lived with his parents in Mansfield and later married a local girl, Elizabeth Ann "Pie" Holland (now Griffin-Bonazzi). After about ten years of blindness he regained his sight when a blood clot behind his optic nerve dissolved. This was all documented in a series of articles in <i>The Fort Worth Star-Telegram</i> at the time when I was a boy. I don't know why Bart Bull/Boule Bartier thinks it was a publicity stunt, but he does.<br /><br />Your offer of a thousand pardons bowled me over. In the future, when you are trying to express what you think is true, try to remember one of my mother's favorite expressions: <i>You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.</i> Of course, you might also want to remember that the portion of your vast audience that thrives on vinegar might just fold their tents like the Arabs and as silently steal away. rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-27899158525434059072013-10-21T13:39:20.865-04:002013-10-21T13:39:20.865-04:00"If you would also like to send a thousand pa..."If you would also like to send a thousand pardons in my direction for all, er, some, er, a tiny fraction of the unkind things you have ever said on your blog, they will be graciously accepted."<br /><br />You've got it for every occasion on which I could have expressed what I thought was true in a less offensive manner. I can but wish that I were able to express what I think is true in a manner that would offend no one because I take no pleasure in causing offense.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-73662171445546848922013-10-21T13:24:23.922-04:002013-10-21T13:24:23.922-04:00Didn't he go blind later? I think we've al...Didn't he go blind later? I think we've already had this discussion in regard to another post.<br /><br />P.S. He's dead, so he would have been blind formerly.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-1388423586102555732013-10-20T18:34:09.433-04:002013-10-20T18:34:09.433-04:00confessconfessrhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-65844919273010905512013-10-20T18:33:37.338-04:002013-10-20T18:33:37.338-04:00Katherine, I never saw the motion picture Black Li...<b>Katherine,</b> I never saw the motion picture <i>Black Like Me</i> starring James Whitmore that was based on John Howard Griffin's book, so I can't respond to what the film contained, but the book <i>Black Like Me</i> by John Howard Griffin (we called him Howard) surely must have referred to his blindness. It was while he was blind that he came to believe that skin color meant nothing. How long has it been since you read it? I confes that it has been more than 40 years since I read it.<br /><br />For the record, I think Howard was both formerly and formally blind.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-76094217884500664442013-10-20T15:06:34.756-04:002013-10-20T15:06:34.756-04:00Amazing post. I really enjoyed the story 'Bla...Amazing post. I really enjoyed the story 'Black Like Me' but I don't remember anything about the writer having been formally blind. Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-9793028506775881002013-10-16T08:31:23.679-04:002013-10-16T08:31:23.679-04:00Snowbrush, of course they are. How silly of me. A...<b>Snowbrush,</b> of course they are. How silly of me. A thousand pardons, <i>mon ami</i>. If you would also like to send a thousand pardons in my direction for all, er, some, er, a tiny fraction of the unkind things you have ever said on your blog, they will be graciously accepted.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-54615394232077270622013-10-16T02:25:08.734-04:002013-10-16T02:25:08.734-04:00"I think your comment contains the answer to ..."I think your comment contains the answer to your own question."<br /><br />The part about "insane ravings and nasty disposition"? No, it couldn't be them there because them are my most appealing qualities.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-38841279863735869822013-10-14T19:26:16.628-04:002013-10-14T19:26:16.628-04:00Snowbrush, don't look now, but I think your co...<b>Snowbrush,</b> don't look now, but I think your comment contains the answer to your own question.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-87348603429162737002013-10-14T19:11:33.907-04:002013-10-14T19:11:33.907-04:00How come you get delightful comments from long-los...How come you get delightful comments from long-lost friends and authors of renown, and I just get hurt and angry responses due to my insane ravings and nasty disposition?Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-62581590308868887222013-10-13T19:42:40.831-04:002013-10-13T19:42:40.831-04:00Yorkshire Pudding, I'm sure I don't know w...<b>Yorkshire Pudding,</b> I'm sure I don't know what you mean by "you run off the highway to explore the bushes!" Is that an expression used commonly in The Peak District (photographs on request)? If you mean I can't see the forest for the trees, well, perhaps that is true. If you mean I can't hold to a story line to save my life, well, perhaps that is true, too.<br />If you mean you didn't click on the link in the post, that is your own blamed fault.<br /> rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-316386743980482652013-10-13T19:29:55.279-04:002013-10-13T19:29:55.279-04:00Whoa! Hang on there pard'ner! I settle down at...Whoa! Hang on there pard'ner! I settle down at my computer with a mug of hot chocolate and a ginger nut biscuit, expecting to read the second part of your life story (as promised!) and instead you run off the highway to explore the bushes!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.com