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;void(0)) . . . Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortenson] (19261962) American actress. see "ACTORS" for related links see "PEOPLE" for related links - 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" - Goodbye Norma Jean. . . And 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 . . . --Elton John (1947 ) and Bernie Taupin (1950 ) "Candle in the Wind" [1973 song]   . . see "EVIL" for related links In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity. --Honorι de Balzac (17991850) 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_ [1961] p.89. {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] Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man. --Sigmund Freud (18561939) Austrian psychiatrist. 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 (Lαszlσ) Lφwenstein] (19041964) Hungarian-born American motion-picture actor. (To Vincent Price while at Bela Lugosi's funeral [1956]) Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not himself become a monster. When you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks back into you. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _Beyond Good and Evil_ [1885-1886], pt. IV - 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 (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 (16591719) Japanese samurai. _Hagakure_ (Hidden in the Leaves)_ [1716] now known as __The Book of the Samurai_. ----- 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-stκr] (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. ;void(0)) MONTANA . . see "PLACES" for related links 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 (18981964) 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 (19021968) American novelist. _Travels With Charley_ [1962] . . see "TIME" for related links Oh, it's a long long while From May to December, But the days grow short; When you reach September. --Maxwell Anderson (18881959) 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 (18881965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist. Opening lines "The Waste Land" [1922]. . . see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words? --Elizabeth Bibesco (18971945) English writer. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. --John Hancock (17371793) American Revolutionary leader and first signer of the Declaration of Independence. 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 (18811975) English humorist; American citizen from 1955. _Uncle Dynamite_ [1948] ----- capricious [kuh-PRISH-us; -PREE-shus], adjective: Apt to change suddenly; whimsical; changeable. 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-bκl] 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. ;void(0)) MOON . . see: "UNIVERSE" Photograph: Moon over Colorado - courtesy of Clouddancer (AFPF). That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. --Neil Armstrong (1930 ) American astronaut. When stepping onto the Moon [21 July 1969]; interference in the transmission obliterated _a_ between "for" and "man." 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 (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 (18201904) American writer. _Intuitions and Summaries Of Thought_ [1862] 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 (18031882) American philosopher and poet. The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodsiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate. --Christopher Fry (19072005) English dramatist. "The Lady's not for Burning" [1949] 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 (19171963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19611963]. 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 (18121888) English landscape painter and writer of nonsense verse. _The Owl and the Pussy-Cat_ [1871] ^ Li Bo (701762) Chinese poet. A lover of beauty and wine, Li Bo 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 Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ - "Allegheny Moon" sung by Patti Page (peak Billboard position # 2 in 1956) Words and Music by Dick Manning and Al Hoffman. Allegheny Moon I need your light To help me find romance tonight So shine, shine, shine Allegheny Moon your silver beams Can lead the way to golden dreams So shine, shine, shine High among the stars so bright above The magic of your lamp of love can make him mine Allegheny Moon it's up to you Please see what you can do For me and for my one and only love - The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. --Carl Sandburg (18781967) 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 (9761017) The 67th emperor of Japan. Poem, after 1016; William N. Porter (trans.) _A Hundred Verses from Old Japan_ [1979] p.68. 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 (18991985) American essayist and literary stylist. In a letter to Judith W. Preusser [25 February 1966]. ----- gibbous (adj.) The Moon or a planet before and after it is full, when it has more than half its disk illuminated end page | MACARTHUR (DOUGLAS) - MALICE | MAN - MARINES | MARRIAGE | MARTYRS - MAUGHAM (WILLIAM SOMERSET) | MAXIMS - MEANNESS | MEDICINE - MEMORIAL DAY | MEMORIES - MEMORY | MEN - MEN v. 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