The Memento Mori Tag! | Tag Tuesday

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This tag was created by ‪@polyglotreading‬: • The memento mori tag |...
The Prompts:
1. How many books will you be able to read before you die, considering your age and statistical life expectancy?
2. How does this number affect your choice of books?
3. What will happen to your book collection once you have passed away?
4. Is there a book that helps you to cope with the disturbing fact of a limited life-span?
5. Which book on this topic do you consider the most witty or entertaining one?
6. Do you have a specific non-fiction book on the topic of death that you’d like to recommend?
7. Humor can be helpful to confront death. Do you have a favorite witty quote on this topic?
8. Does this tag make you feel uneasy or are you quite relaxed about this topic?
I would like to tag:
‪@novelideea‬
‪@AaronReadABook‬
‪@bookssongsandothermagic‬
If you found this interesting and would like to give it a go, please consider yourself tagged!
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26 фев 2024

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@BookChatWithPat8668 4 месяца назад

Very thoughtful responses to the tag, Aaron. Congratulations on this wonderful news about your baby on the way!

@aaronfacer 4 месяца назад

Thank you, Pat! 😊

@polyglotreading 4 месяца назад

Hi Aaron, thanks for doing the tag, and for the kind words about my channel 😊. Great answers, well done sir! In case you''re reading Rilke in translation, I'd be curious which one it is. All the best for the baby, - this is definitely a big change in one's life, - a demanding but also very rewarding one. Best regards from Germany, - David 🤗

@aaronfacer 4 месяца назад

Thank you, David! It's a great tag, and I really enjoyed thinking through the questions. I'm currently reading Christiane Marks' translation of Sonnets to Orpheus - it looks like it's a fairly recent one. It's been okay so far, although I think I prefer Edward Snow's translations of Rilke on the whole. Unfortunately, I can't read Rilke in the original, but maybe one of these days I will!

@RaynorReadsStuff 4 месяца назад

This tag is really interesting. Yours is a great take on it. Many congratulations on your family news 😊

@aaronfacer 4 месяца назад

Thank you, Debs 😊

@insearchofwonder 4 месяца назад

Morbid streak ice cream!!! 😂😂😂 That made me laugh out loud and got me wondering what flavor the "streak" part would be... licorice maybe? Also, congratulations on the coming new arrival to your family! How exciting!

@aaronfacer 4 месяца назад

Haha, yeah I think licorice would work 😄 Thank you, Anne!

@AaronReadABook 4 месяца назад

Ooo interesting one, with some thoughtful prompts. I'll have to do this one because I've already made my thumbnail 😂

@aaronfacer 4 месяца назад

Nice! I'll be looking forward to it 😄

@CourtneyReads 4 месяца назад

It was great to hear your answers to these. I also find the discussion of death in literature fascinating and seeing how different writers write about it. I'm reading Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn in March and the back of it mentions Magic Mountain, so after we talked about that recently I kind of want to pick it up soon.

@aaronfacer 4 месяца назад

Thank you, Courtney! That's cool. I haven't read any Solzhenitsyn yet, so I might give that a go!

@amyofhearthridge 4 месяца назад

“Morbid streak” ice cream flavor 😂☠️🖤I had a tshirt that said “I’m a cute little ray of pitch black!” Awww! Congratulations on the new little one coming. Yes, I try not to be “precious” about my books either, even now. There’s a few I don’t let my kids kick around 😂, but for the most part, they have free access to all our books. Emily Bronte writes beautiful death-themed 😅poetry! Psalms and other poetry are comforting. This was interesting.

@aaronfacer 4 месяца назад

Thank you, Amy! I really love Emily Brontë's poetry too, although I need to read more than the slim selection I have at the moment.

@bookssongsandothermagic 4 месяца назад

Awesome video. Thanks for tagging me - this is quite a serious one, and one I'd need to really think about....really interesting though!

@aaronfacer 4 месяца назад

Cheers, Gareth!

@ameliareads589 3 месяца назад

Julian Barnes has written two books about death which I really like. Levels of Life and Nothing to Be Frightened Of. Over the years I've read a lot of books about death. It's a topic I also have been always interested in. I would definitely buy an ice cream called "Morbid Streak". 😂

@aaronfacer 3 месяца назад

Ah, I'll have to keep an eye out for those Julian Barnes books. It would be great to dive a little deeper into the subject!

@davidnovakreadspoetry 4 месяца назад

I’d forgotten that quip by Vespasian - I don’t remember if he was supposed to have meant it as such. Last words or last recorded words are an interesting subject in themselves. Congrats too on the babe: My mother groand My father wept… 🎉

@aaronfacer 4 месяца назад

Thank you, David! Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if I'm misinterpreting Vespasian there, but it still makes me giggle when I think about it. I also like Oscar Wilde's supposed last words about the wallpaper in his hotel room, but I couldn't quite remember them when I was filming.