Eulogies

A eulogy is a speech or writing in praise of a person(s) or thing(s), especially one who recently died or retired or as a term of endearment. Quotes EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911). How is one to explain the contradiction illustrated by that orator? Is it because Abraham had a prescriptive right to be a great man, so that what he did is great, and when another does the same it is sin, a heinous sin? In that case I do not wish to participate in such thoughtless eulogy. If faith does not make it a holy act to be willing to murder one's son then let the same condemnation be pronounced upon Abraham as upon every other man. Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, "Problemata:Preliminary Expectoration", pp. 41, (published in 1843; Princeton University Press 1973 Edition). Memory, about the futile struggle to remember. It’s a eulogy to all the people who flee the terrible conditions in their home countries, desperately hoping for a better life here, and never make it. Achy Obejas, on her story “The Collector” in the short story collection The Tower of the Antilles in "Q&A: ACHY OBEJAS ON BEING CUBAN-AMERICAN, SEXUALITY, EXILE, AND HER SHORT STORIES" (August 3, 2017). La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'éloge ment après leur mort. Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. Voltaire, Lettre à Bordes (10 January 1769). The eulogies of my intelligence are positively intended to evade the question “Is what she says true?” Simone Weil, Letter to her parents, 1943. External links Eulogy eulogy Eulogies Category:Discourse