GoogObits
Obituaries augmented by Google searches using hypertext enjambment. There is a lot to learn from the dead.
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GoogObits: Nadines
The obituaries of Nadine Conner, Lyric Soprano With the Met, and just plain Nadine, Opera Soprano and Countess of Shrewsbury, were published on the same day. What were the chances of that?
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GoogObits: Delivered (OBITPOEM: WILLIAM FERRIS)
Here’s a new ObitPoem from the Economics serialization.
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GoogObits: Words (Malcolm Kilduff, Who Announced Kennedy’s Death, Dies at 75)
Right about now, as a powerful country reels back its fist and gets ready to show Iraqis once again how brute force can ruin everything, the power of words can be deprecated. But don’t be fooled. Words rule.
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GoogObits: Mensch (THOMAS H. HARRIS, 77)
Sometimes the only thing you can learn from an obituary is that a really cool person who you never got to know has recently died.
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GoogObits: VOLGARE PROCLAMATION
VOLGARE PROCLAMATION Employing this new Manuscripts Folio Typeface by Stephen Farrell to Demand an Accounting of the 8,000 or so People Killed in the Massacre of Srebrenica. Between Tuesday, July 11, and Friday, July 14, 1995, in a UN-designated “safe area”, the Bosnian Serb military, led by General Ratko Mladic, blew past a small contingent…