When Christopher Morley died, two newspapers published a message he’d written to friends:
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
I like to think of it as an alternative to an obituary, but I’m an old newspaperman and like alternative ways of doing things. I’d rather read a note than an obituary.
Morley was once well known as a writer. I got curious and looked up some of his poems because Bedichek mentioned him in The Sense of Smell.
• Sources: The Literature Network’s article on Morley is here:
https://www.online-literature.com/morley/
The Bryant Library in Roslyn, N.Y., where Morely and his family lived, has several pages on the writer. This is a good place to start:
https://bryantlibrary.org/local-history/articles/christopher-morley-a-brief-biography/
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