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(My Grandfather)

JOE: Good morning Calliope.
CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. I missed you yesterday.
JOE: I was wrestling with a virus.
CALLIOPE: Yours?
JOE: No my computer's. But its better today.
CALLIOPE: What else have you been up to?
JOE: Working on my column for Saturday.
CALLIOPE: Which is?
JOE: I started thinking about the words Shakespeare put in Mark Antony's mouth after the Roman Senate assassinated Julius Caesar.
CALLIOPE: The evil men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.
JOE: Precisely. Then I thought of two exceptions although there are many more.
CALLIOPE: Tell me.
JOE: Saint Nicholas was renowned for his secret gifts to the poor in the fourth century. My grandfather left a quieter legacy in 1959.
CALLIOPE: Sounds interesting.
JOE: You will see it on my website Saturday. Talk with you tomorrow.
 

]]> https://www.thebatavian.com/blogs/jlangen/conversations-calliope-saint-nicholas-and-my-grandfather/11210#comments https://www.thebatavian.com/blogs/jlangen/conversations-calliope-saint-nicholas-and-my-grandfather/11210 Dec 2, 2009, 10:29am Julius Caesar Conversations with Calliope- Saint Nicholas and My Grandfather jlangen <p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uV2zlehaKHU/SxaF8K1SubI/AAAAAAAAB74/QsUGXiU6Fh4/s1600-h/Charles+Gill-+My+maternal+grandfather.jpg"></a><br> <br> <br> (My Grandfather)<br> <br> JOE: Good morning Calliope.<br> CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. I missed you yesterday.<br> JOE: I was wrestling with a virus.<br> CALLIOPE: Yours?<br> JOE: No my computer's. But its better today.<br> CALLIOPE: What else have you been up to?<br> JOE: Working on my column for Saturday.<br> CALLIOPE: Which is?<br> JOE</p>