Suitable For Framing Or Wrapping Fish
Certainly today’s title Suitable For Framing Or Wrapping Fish fits the Our Daily Dead mood. We are Wordpressing as you can see, but we’re still missing a few favorites from the ODDcloset: ODD On Deck and ODD Exists for example. But never fear our Horde of Geeks will triumph in the end…we hope.
Sanora Babb is an ODDguest today and you must, if nothing else, admire her perseverence. She wrote a magnificent novel about a Depression-era farm family only to see her manuscript shelved by Random House because of the publishing of another novel with a similar story line. That other novel? John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
“What rotten luck,” wrote Bennett Cerf
Rotten luck indeed. It did not keep her from writing, but it did delay the publishing of her book by some 65 years! All things in good time Grasshopper. Do read the rest of Ms. Babb’s obituary - she had quite a life.
We’ve another author as an ODDguest today too - Heinrich Harrer. We’d have to say that Mr. Harrer makes us two for two in the Quite The Life category - an Austrian mountaineer, a former Nazi, a friend of the Dalai Lama, a published author, and (no doubt the pinnacle) portrayed by actor Brad Pitt in the film “Seven Years In Tibet”
Just to counter these two magnificent lives we’ll give you a couple from the ODDside: a very troubled (did that need to be said??) man and his wife committed suicide in the Denver area recently and supposedly their parrot may inherit their assets. Definitely Koyaanisqatsi
Go climb a mountain, tavel to Spain or start that book of yours. Celebrate the moment. And leave your parrot out it.
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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