Memento Mori
I just put a memento mori app on my phone. For those of you who did not take four years of Latin in high school, which is no doubt most of you who are not close personal friends with Methuselah, memento mori means remember you are mortal, -- that is, remember that, like Monty Python’s infamous parrot, you are going to be bloody well deceased some day, kick it, shuffle off this mortal coil, end up stone cold dead. In ancient Rome when a successful general returned to the City after a conquering spree in foreign parts, [...]