Saturday, October 1, 2005

[1903 - Boston Americans play Pittsburgh Pirates in game 1 of modern World Series]

Williams

He was not my friend, but I came to know him.
He said James Joyce was a great humorist; I thought him surely mad.
Then he began to read aloud passages he selected from Ulysses.
I cannot remember another time I laughed harder or longer.

Some say Williams could be exquisitely cruel and abusive.
If this was so, it was because his crooked finger pointed straight at truth.
He did not suffer fools, nor did he take any prisoners.
It is said he taught himself Latin and was translating the works of the poet Ovid.
No one seems to know what became of him.

William's Whimsical Words:

Williams (no relation to poorwilliam) was likely a casualty in the war on unconventional intellectuals, now in its forty-second millennium.

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