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The latest version of Empsonian Logic
(number 5) is available from the links page. Articles include an obituary
of Warwick Empson, William Pynchon
of Springfield plantation and Charles
Empson – the baker who went from Oxfordshire to New Zealand, via
Birmingham in the 1880s.
If you can read Latin, you won't
need to have the inscription below translated. It's from a memorial to Clementis
Empson, and is inscribed on a plaque in the cloisters of Winchester
College, England.
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Clementis
Empson
hujus
Collegii olim Alumni Memoriae Sacrum
Natus Prid Cal : Nov : MDCCCLX : obiit a: d. vii Id Sept :MDCCCLXXVI
Anno Aetatis suae XVI
Amicorum
Deliciae, Parenti viduae carissimus,
ad Meliora subito Casu a Deo
avocatus.
Beati Mundo Code, quoniam ipsi Deum videbunt |
Those of you who can't read Latin, will
find a
translation, and more about this story in
issues four and five of Empsonian
Logic |
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