Love
Perhaps the assembled literatti can help me
fill in a metaphor. For a sentence in progress I am looking for someone or
someones, in life, fiction, film, opera, song or myth, done in by love -- more
preferrably killed -- most preferrably by a rival. So far the nominees
have been Jay Gatsby (indirectly), Rocky Raccoon (who, close textual reading
reveals, seems to not have actually expired), Sam Cooke and Stanley ("The
Hamtranck Assassin") Ketchel (both disqualified when the full facts of their
demise became known), and Stanford White (fits, though a bit
kinky.)
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Michael L Schmicker says:
Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafuoco?
Bob:
Just checked in to RR after a long hiatus and headed for your blog.
How about the Long Island Lolita goes after Joey's wife -- didn't quite kill her but tried. Lots of pop culture, declasse melodrama, and you can't beat the name Buttafuoco.
http://ladyj3000.blogspot.com/2009/08/casualties-of-love-long-island-lol...
Sorry -- the best I could do.
Mike
Eric Nichols says:
Are you looking for literati with one T or two Ts?
http://www.artemisia-gentileschi.com/jael-sisera.html
Jael and Sisera is a good one.
18And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
19And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
20Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
21Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
I love the last sentence. "So he died." Ya think?
:)
eric
Bob Levin says:
Thanks, guys, but I was
Thanks, guys, but I was looking for a hero killed by a rival. Mrs. Buttafucco doesn't seem to have qualified as the former, even if she had been shuffled from this coil; and this entire Jael, Sisera Heber thing confuses me. Who did what to whom for what reason? Looks like I'll stick with Rocky Raccoon.
Eric Nichols says:
The story of Jael and Sisera
The story of Jael and Sisera is n the book of Judges. (Your being from the tribe of Levi, I thought you'd know that!) :)
Eric