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August 12, 2005

Robin Cook

I confess I was struggling to find the right words to express my feeling at the passing of Robin Cook. It is the same feeling I always have in those times when a common courtesy is to say pleasant things about public figures we have never met and with whom we disagreed while they were still on the scene. Fortunately, Harry Hutton found the words I could not.

I was sorry to hear that Robin Cook croaked. When he was alive I wanted to toss him into a vat of hot tar, to make him howl; but now he’s a stiff I realise what a loss he is to our nation. A droning Scot in favour of ID cards- we shall not look upon his like again.

And from the comments is a gem of a Clarence Darrow quote. Better yet a link to his obituary.

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 12, 2005 08:31 AM

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