SAD LINES ON THE PASSING OF MY FRIEND, DAN AMOR.
SAD LINES ON THE PASSING OF MY FRIEND, DAN AMOR. We were kindred spirits of a kind. You and I were brought together by writing and writing kept us together for over 26 years. We wrote for newspapers and magazines, wrote books of our own too. Together, we read books in literature and in politics. Books about every subject matter under the sun, because we were, both of us, men of letters, who used English words the way bricklayers use concrete blocks to build mansions. You and I built mansions with English letters and created both real and imaginative castles of information and of knowledge. You and I believed as did Francis Bacon, the prominent English philosopher and Essayist that "reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man ". And so we wrote, through day and night, we wrote. And like Christopher Marlowe, you wrote "mighty lines of poetry and of prose. " Robert Frost was not sure about how the world was going to end, in fire or...