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MARILYN MONROE
MONSTERS --- MONTANA
MONTHS --- MOODY --- MOON

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see: "ACTORS"
see: "PEOPLE"
see: "SEX SYMBOLS"

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The funeral was scheduled for one o'clock that
afternoon — Wednesday, August 8, 1962 — the
day Joe [DiMagio] and Marilyn would have been
married.

Many in the crowd outside the gates of Westwood
Memorial Park grew angry as the hour of the service
approached. Joe had excluded everyone in
Hollywood — all the big wheels who wanted to say
goodbye to Marilyn.

Even her lawyer, Mickey Rudin, who was invited,
protested to DiMaggio that he was keeping out a
lot of important people — studio heads, directors,
stars — and what was Rudin supposed to tell them?
"Tell them," Joe growled, "if it wasn't for them,
she'd still be here."

That Friday, two days after the funeral, he stopped
by the cemetery office, just once more, to look over
the cards and leaf through hundreds of telegrams,
and see the piles of flowers that had been delivered.

Joe had always arranged for his own flower
deliveries — roses for Marilyn's crypt, to be
delivered three times a week. Just as Marilyn
had asked, so many years before.

When Joe was ready to leave he wanted to stop by
the crypt, but there was a crowd there. Fans had
been streaming in by the hundreds. They were around
her all the time. Maybe that was how it would be from
now on — she belonged to them, after all.

The cemetery director, Guy Hockett, told Joe, "Just
wait a moment." Then he went over to the fans and
explained that Mr. DiMaggio would like to have a
moment with his — with Miss Monroe. And an
extraordinary thing happened: all of the faithful
around Marilyn parted and stepped back as Joe
DiMaggio approached.

Because they all knew — he was her worshiper. He
was the one who would always come to her, to help
her, to carry her or bury her — to the very end. So,
in the end, she was his.

--Richard Ben Cramer
_Reader's Digest_ [February 2001],
"Scenes From A Movie Star's Marriage"

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[On Marilyn Monroe:]
She's the original good time that was had by all.
--Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis) (1908—1989)
American actress.
Quoted in Gene Shalit _Great Hollywood Wit_, p. 14 [2003].

It seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind.
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in.
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid.
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did.
--Bernie Taupin (b. 1950)
English lyricist and songwriter.
"Candle in the Wind" [1973 song], sung by Elton John.




MONSTERS
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In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.
--attributed to Honoré de Balzac (1799—1850)
French journalist and writer.

The old people said 'Yes, it is so: these people are
goblins; their eyes are at the back of their heads;
they pull on shore with their backs to the land to
which they are going.'
--in J. C. Beaglehole _The Discovery of New Zealand_, p. 89 [1961].
Referring to the Maori peoples' first sight of the English oarsmen at
Coromandel on the North Island of New Zealand in 1852.

We tell our children and grandchildren there are no
such things as monsters and evil, one-eyed giants.
We tell them such things are the stuff of fairy tales
and fictional legend. We tell them not to worry. But
perhaps we tell them as much to reassure ourselves
as them— because we are not really so certain. A
hurricane— a true one-eyed monster, can rattle our
firm beliefs that evil giants do not exist in our world.
--Buzz Bernard, Sr. Meteorologist
"No such things as monsters?"
The Weather Channel [13 September 1999]

From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
--Cornish prayer

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being
only the products of the psychic activity of man.
--Sigmund Freud (1856—1939)
Austrian psychiatrist.
Quoted in _New York Times Magazine_ [6 May 1956].

Do you think we should drive a stake
through his heart just in case?
--Peter Lorre [Ladislav (László) Löwenstein] (1904—1964)
Hungarian-born American motion-picture actor.
(To Vincent Price at Bela Lugosi's funeral [1956].)

Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that in
the process he does not become one himself. When
you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks back
into you.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Beyond Good and Evil_, pt. 4 [1885-86]

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We're not just afraid of predators, we're transfixed by
them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter
endlessly about them, because fascination creates
preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply
tribal sense, we love our monsters.
--Edward O. Wilson (b. 1929)
American entomologist and biologist.
Quoted by Peter Benchley in his article about great white sharks,
"Reality Bites", in _Reader's Digest_ [January 2001].

There was once a man in China who liked pictures of
dragons. His clothing and his furniture were therefore
accordingly adorned with dragons. This deep affection
for their kind was brought to the attention of the Dragon
Lord, who one day sent a real dragon to stand outside
the man's window. It is said that he probably died of
fright.
--Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659—1719)
Japanese samurai.
_Hagakure_ (Hidden in the Leaves)_ [1716],
now known as "The Book of the Samurai".

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Cerberus (noun)
In Greek and Roman mythology, the three-headed
dog that guards the entrance to Hades.

chimera (chimaera) (noun)
1/ A mythical fire-breathing female monster with
a lion's head, a goat's body, and a snake's tail.
Similar: monster, Gorgon
2/ A fantastic, often horrible, idea or image
produced by the mind.
Synonyms: specter, apparition.
Similar: monster, bogeyman, hallucination, nightmare.

cyclops (noun)
In Greek mythology, any of several giants having
only one eye, in the middle of the forehead.
Related: ogre

snollygoster (noun) ['sna-li-gah-stêr]
(Regional slang) An unscrupulous but shrewd person; a hob-goblin
that preys on naughty boys, girls and poultry (sometimes called
a "snallygaster"). The word originated in the Pennsylvania-Maryland
area of the Eastern United States but occurs widely now in the
Northeast.
Etymology: In some areas of the Eastern United States, parents
keep their children ruly with warnings about the evil snollygoster
or snallygaster, a nocturnal monster that is part bird, part reptile,
and pounces with incredible swiftness when least expected.




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MONTANA

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Colorado is high, having more peaks within its
borders than any other state. Wyoming is wide,
with the breadth of the plains between the Big
Horns and the Grand Tetons. California is
handsome, with a spendor of success. It takes
all three adjectives to describe Montana.
--Donald Culross Peattie (1898—1964)
American botanist and author.
_The Road of a Naturalist_ [1941]

I am in love with Montana. For other states I have
admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection,
but with Montana it is love. ... It seems to me that
Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is
huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with
grass and color, and the mountains are the kind
I would create if mountains were ever put on my
agenda.
--John Steinbeck (1902—1968)
American novelist.
_Travels With Charley_ [1962]




MONTH(S)

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Oh, it's a long long while
From May to December,
But the days grow short;
When you reach September.
--Maxwell Anderson (1888—1959)
American Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright.
"September Song" in the musical _Knickerbocker Holiday_ [1938].

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
--T.S. Eliot (1888—1965)
Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist.
Opening lines "The Waste Land" [1922].




MOOD(Y)

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Of what help is anyone who can only
be approached with the right words?
--Elizabeth Bibesco [née Asquith] (1897—1945)
English writer.
_Haven_ [1951], as quoted in Linda K. Fuller & Lilless Shilling
_Dictionary of Quotations in Communications_ [1997].

Good humor will sometimes conquer ill humor, but ill humor
will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good humor
must operate on generosity; ill humor on meanness.
--Fulke Greville (1554—1628)
English philosophical poet.
Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 199 [1908 ed.].

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A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a
piece of baggage to carry through life.
--attributed to John Hancock (1737—1793)
American Revolutionary leader and first
signer of the Declaration of Independence.

note:

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece
of baggage to carry with you in the business
world.
--Helen Frances Thompson
_Do's and Don'ts for Business Women_ [1922]

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Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their
periods women behave the way men do
all the time.
--Robert Heinlein (1907—1988)
American science-fiction writer.
_The Cat Who Walks Through Walls_, ch. 15 [1985]

He was in the frame of mind when he would have liked
to meet Joe Louis and pick a quarrel with him.
--P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (1881—1975)
English humorist; American citizen from 1955.
_Uncle Dynamite_ [1948]

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cantankerous (adj.) [kæn-'tæng-kêr-ês]
Quarrelsome, ill-tempered, crotchety,
ornery; difficult to handle.

capricious [kuh-PRISH-us; -PREE-shus], adjective:
Apt to change suddenly; whimsical; changeable.

curmudgeon (noun) [kêr-'mêd-jên]
An ill-tempered, irascible person full of stubbornly
held opinions. Usually said of (older) men.

dyspeptic (adj.) [dis-'pep-tik]
Suffering from indigestion or morose or disgruntled
as if suffering from an upset stomach.

labile (adj.) ['ley-bIl or 'ley-bêl]
Changeable, unstable; apt to slip away.
May be used in place of tempermental
or moody when describing personalities.

peckish (adj.) ['pe-kish]
Slightly hungry or, in North American only, irritable.




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MOON

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see: "NIGHT"
see: "SKY"
see: "UNIVERSE"


Photograph: Moon over Colorado -
courtesy of Clouddancer (AFPF).

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Houston, Tranquillity base here.
The Eagle has landed.
--Neil Armstrong (b. 1930)
American astronaut.
Landing on the moon [20 July 1969].


That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
--Neil Armstrong (b. 1930)
American astronaut.
When stepping onto the Moon [21 July 1969];
interference in the transmission obliterated
_a_ between "for" and "man."

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So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The
poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to
the office without undergoing the agonies of
the damned, but give him a little metal, a few
chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion
dollars and, vroom! There he is, up on a rock a
quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
--Russell Baker (b. 1925)
American journalist and columnist.
_New York Times_ [21 July 1969]

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight,
when one sees half with the eye and half with
the fancy.
--Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904)
American writer.
_Intuitions and Summaries Of Thought_ [1862]

The moon belongs to ev'ryone,
The best things in life are free.
--B.G. DeSylva (1895—1950)
American songwriter.
"The Best Things in Life Are Free" [1927 song]
Coauthored with Lew Brown and Ray Henderson.

The man who has seen the rising moon break out
of the clouds at midnight has been present like an
archangel at the creation of light and of the world.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Essays_, First Series [1841], "History"

The moon is nothing
But a circumambulating aphrodisiac
Divinely subsidized to provoke the world
Into a rising birth-rate.
--Christopher Fry (1907—2005)
English dramatist.
"The Lady's Not for Burning", act 3 [1949]

Say it's only a paper moon,
Sailing over a cardboard sea,
But it wouldn't be make believe,
If you believed in me.
--E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (1896—1981) & Billy Rose (1899—1966)
American songwriters.
"It's Only a Paper Moon" [1933 song]; music by Harold Arlen.

I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving
the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man
on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963].
Address to joint session of Congress [25 May 1961].

They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
--Edward Lear (1812—1888)
English landscape painter and writer of nonsense verse.
_The Owl and the Pussy-Cat_ [1871]

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Li Po (701—762)
Chinese poet.

A lover of beauty and wine, Li Po met his
death appropriately. According to popular
tradition, he was out in a boat one evening.
Trying to embrace the reflection of the moon,
which shone full on the water, he fell in and
drowned.

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.]

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By the light, of the silvery moon,
I want to spoon,
To my honey I'll croon love's tune.
Honey moon, keep a-shinin' in June.
Your silv'ry beams will bring love's dreams,
We'll be cuddlin' soon,
By the silvery moon.
--Edward Madden (1878—1952)
American songwriter.
"By the Light of the Silvery Moon" [1909 song]

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
--Carl Sandburg (1878—1967)
American poet.
_Complete Poems_ [1950] "Moonlight and Maggots"

If in this troubled world of ours
I still must linger on,
My only friend shall be the moon,
Which on my sadness shone,
When other friends were gone.
--Emperor Sanjo (976—1017)
The 67th emperor of Japan.
Poem, after 1016; William N. Porter (trans.)
_A Hundred Verses from Old Japan_, p. 68 [1979].

Although I'm sometimes pessimistic about man's
future, I don't believe him to be innately evil.
I'm more worried about his insatiable curiosity
than I am about his poor character; his pre-
occupation with the moon is disturbing to me,
particularly since his own rivers run dirty and
his air is getting fouler every year.
--E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (1899—1985)
American essayist and literary stylist.
In a letter to Judith W. Preusser [25 February 1966].

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gibbous (adj.)
The Moon or a planet before and after it is full,
when it has more than half its disk illuminated.


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