The Six-Word Epitaph in Action
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Since we started this project, inspired by a probably-apocryphal six-word Hemingway story, we’ve heard tell of the probably-apocryphal six-word epitaph “I told you I was sick.” It’s a great last-laugh tale, but I for one thought it was just that. No so, proves the equally clever Not Quite contributor Matt “Full life; impossible to summarize in…” Love. He provides photographic evidence:
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Hélas pas assez futé, il fut…
JAMES L KETCH
1920 2000
“I poisoned my wife, Justifiably so”
She was not alone. Search Google.
Apocryphal no more.
British (Irish/Indian) comedy legend Spike Milligan has “I told you I was ill” as an epitaph. It is though in Irish…
“He had once quipped that he wanted his headstone to bear the words “I told you I was ill.” He was buried at St Thomas’s Church cemetery in Winchelsea, East Sussex, but the Chichester Diocese refused to allow this epitaph. A compromise was reached with the Irish language translation, “Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite”, and additionally in English, “Love, light, peace”.”
http://www.answers.com/topic/milligan-spike?cat=entertainment
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