[OFB Cafe] Who's Still on Here?

[Timothy Butler]

> Very well done- I normally have to explain! Actually, the verse (not  
> in
> all versions, as in your quote) from which I took it is:-
>
> "And when like her, oh, Saki, you shall pass
> Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass,
> And in your joyous errand reach the spot
> Where I made One--turn down an empty Glass!"

	Ah, yes, one of my favorite verses from the work. It is a perfect  
crescendo for the work. There are such excellent lines in the  
Rubaiyyat; the one that is typically my favorite is in my signature at  
times.

> And, I have to confess, also in honour of another excellent writer,
> Hector Hugh Munro, who chose it as his pen-name. Sadly he was of that
> generation that disappeared into the abyss of the Western Front in the
> Great War.

	I actually was not familiar with him. Thank you.

> "She was a good cook as good cooks go, and, as cooks go, she went."
>
> And "Madame was not best pleased at being contradicted on a  
> professional
> matter, and when Madame lost her temper you usually found it  
> afterwards
> in the bill."

	Sounds worth checking out.

	Thanks,
		Tim

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