An Immortal (for now)
Immortality. What does it mean? When Woody Allen was asked if he hoped to find immortality through his work, he replied, “No. I’d like to achieve immortality by not dying.”
This seems too much to ask for, so I’d just like to thank our Daily News for granting me work-related immortality. I am now cited in the Wikipedia dictionary, the Wiktionary.
We all know the put-downs. If you look up ugly in the encyclopedia you’ll see his picture. Substitute for ugly, stupid, drunk, cheap or tawdry and you get the idea. I was hoping, if ever cited, to have it under Noble Laureate, Pulitzer winner—or even better Lotto winner. But no. Or maybe I should say, “Not yet.”
Go to the Wiktionary and search “Truthiness.” There I am, along with the link to my April Fools column In Praise of Fools. I guess this is better than getting to say, “If you search the Wiki under fool, you get Jonathan.”
Better to have been cited in Wiktionary then never to have been cited at all.
Jonathan, you will always be immortal, even if Wiktionary is not.