"Lucy," I shouted with tears in my eyes, thinking that John's recent heart problems had caught up with him. "John Basinger died."
He didn't. I scanned the article and couldn't understand why it didn't mention how or why he had died, until I realized it wasn't an obituary.
The web hed, Middletown Man, 76, Memorized Paradise Lost, is in the same format as any death announcement.
It turns out that the story is a very engaging front page piece with a very different hed in the printed version: In Memorizing 'Paradise Lost,' A Challenge Found.
As Lucy said, it may be the best way to start a morning, thinking that a good friend has died, and then realizing he hasn't.
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the link to the headline is formatted as a link to a "mail to:" link. so, you can't click on it to go to the article. it should be just a link to "http:..." not "mailto:..."
Ed, I did the same thing when I saw the headline (although I didn't say it to Lucy.) What a great relief that John's alive and still reciting! Someone at the Courant really ought to do the work of an editor...
Ed,
I am almost as happy to be alive as to learn that you hold me in sufficient regard to mourn my passing, whenever it happens.
Appreciatively,
John
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