Memento mori victorian

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an old engraving with skulls and bones on it

Answer (1 of 5): It roughly means “you will be what I am.” It’s often used with full the phrase “Eram quod es, eris quod sum”: “I was what you are, you will be what I am.” It’s been a common gravestone quote, as anyone who looks at a gravestone can understand that the person buried once was alive...

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a clock with a face and mustaches on it's face is sitting on a table in front of candles

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an old black and white photo of a man standing next to a chair

There's a slightly macabre story about the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, a man so dissipated he expired from chronic alcoholism in his late 30s. (His last words purportedly were, "I've had eighteen straight whiskeys. I think that's the record.") Lionized in America, he found the seductions of the White Horse pub a little too much for him and keeled over with a brain hemorrhage. His widow Caitlin recalls that when his body was being shipped back to Wales for burial, some of the deckhands…

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