Joe Kitson
Famous Last Words of Five Doyens (text)
Ned Kelly (outlaw and poet)
Upon being hanged for insurrection in Melbourne jail: “Such is life!”
Napoleon Bonaparte (dictator, ogre and emperor)
In prison in 1821 on the British prison island of St Helena in the equatorial Atlantic:
“For God’s sake don’t eat the fish!”
Oscar Wilde (homosexual writer)
In exile in Paris in a cheap flop-house:
“Either the wallpaper goes or I do!”
George VI (king and humanist)
Having been asked on his deathbed if he would like a month’s holiday at Bognor:
“Oh, bugger Bognor!”
Jesus Christ (oxymoronically and paradoxically a crucified messiah).
Poisoned with vinegar, speared by horseman Loginus and mocked
by Jewish spectators of his crucifixion:
“Father, why hast thou forsaken me?”
(All genuine and verified)
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