Appreciate Me Now, and Avoid the Rush PDF
160 Pages·1981·21.758 MB·other
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Collection of close to 300 Ashleigh Brilliant created epigrams originally designed as postcards.
You awaken one morning and say something terribly concise and clever. Like, "Be a good neighbor and leave me alone." Or, "The funniest thing about some people is that they have no sense of humor."
Your friends say such wit belongs in books, or at least on greeting cards.
Be warned: You could be threatened with a lawsuit by a man who claims to be "the world's only full-time epigrammist." He has copyrighted collections of 7,500 pithy sayings (including the ones about good neighbors and a sense of humor) and aggressively protects his literary turf from suspected interlopers -- even though his legal grounds remain debatable.
There is no doubt, however, that his laconic musings are Brilliant Thoughts, if only because his name is Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant and, as he says, "I have the birth certificate to prove it."
Brilliant, 63, a London-born former college history teacher from Santa Barbara, Calif., began his career as a professional epigrammist 30 years ago when he realized he could make a living from the "strange things" he had been writing down for years and reciting at parties.
"My goal is to express every conceivable thought and feeling, every possible event and circumstance, in 17 words or less, with grace and skill." He says this with a rhetorical flourish that brings to mind Brilliant's Epigram No. 4364: "I know my limitations, one of which is being too ambitious."
You awaken one morning and say something terribly concise and clever. Like, "Be a good neighbor and leave me alone." Or, "The funniest thing about some people is that they have no sense of humor."
Your friends say such wit belongs in books, or at least on greeting cards.
Be warned: You could be threatened with a lawsuit by a man who claims to be "the world's only full-time epigrammist." He has copyrighted collections of 7,500 pithy sayings (including the ones about good neighbors and a sense of humor) and aggressively protects his literary turf from suspected interlopers -- even though his legal grounds remain debatable.
There is no doubt, however, that his laconic musings are Brilliant Thoughts, if only because his name is Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant and, as he says, "I have the birth certificate to prove it."
Brilliant, 63, a London-born former college history teacher from Santa Barbara, Calif., began his career as a professional epigrammist 30 years ago when he realized he could make a living from the "strange things" he had been writing down for years and reciting at parties.
"My goal is to express every conceivable thought and feeling, every possible event and circumstance, in 17 words or less, with grace and skill." He says this with a rhetorical flourish that brings to mind Brilliant's Epigram No. 4364: "I know my limitations, one of which is being too ambitious."
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