Re: sorry, not Lector - LectER
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Mon, 07 Jun 1999 12:36:19 -0400
At 11:15 AM -0400 on 6/7/99, you wrote:
> SCOTTIE: Stay please! (I missed the beginning of this brawl, but I can
> cite empirical evidence to prove that the fishpond is less eclectic when
> you're not swimming with, or near, the school...)
Agreed!
> Tim: (I'm almost embarassed to ask....) What exactly is the source of that
> citation about the wind always being at your back? When I heard you quoting
> it to Scottie, it somehow sounded almost Tennysonian.... or maybe even
> Kipling-esque.... I've always thought it was bad ad copy from adidas....
I am mortified (or proud) to say that I've forgotten it precisely, but it
was from
Catholic-school days, and was an Irish blessing of sorts, along the lines
(and spoken to a dead person) of:
May the wind be ever at your back,
May the road rise to meet you,
And may you be in heaven
Half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.
One of those sentimentalisms that appear on dish towels and coffee cups and
calendars and such. I'm sure there's someone here who knows it better than
I do.
--tim