| December 31, 2005 |
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Famous Last Words
"The  Horror! The Horror!" cried Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" before he shuffled of this mortal coil. "Et tu, Brute?" asked Julius Caeser -- but that one's attributed to Shakespeare. So what about some real-life famous last words? Enter Wikipedia, stage left. "I am not the least afraid to die," boasted a confident Charles Darwin at the end. Sigmund Freud, meanwhile, came up with the rather less dignified "This is absurd! This is absurd!" before he finally gave up the ghost. The collection of quotes here is fascinating, from the insulting ("All right then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick." -- Lope de Vega) to the sublime ("I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis" -- Humphrey Bogart). So if you're looking for insight into some of the world's most celebrated people (or endings), in the words of Giuseppe Zangara, "Go ahead. Pusha da button!" (in Reference) |
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