Leonard recites "In Flanders Fields"

[Geoffrey]

I have no idea why they would do that, give us a pretence of personalisation where none exists. It makes people feel special, until they realize that they've been duped. That's just cruel.

well, i'm glad you write 'they', as perhaps leonard was not party to this underhandedness. in fact i very much doubt he would risk being involved in such easily detectable fraudulence - even though it fooled me, i am ashamed to say. i can only conclude that this stunt is the work of someone with no scruples, someone who intentionally wanted to delude people. another name for the devil is 'the deceiver', and that creature has obviously been busy infiltrating the mind of whoever thought this was a good idea.

[B4real]

I have no idea why they would do that, give us a pretence of personalisation where none exists. It makes people feel special, until they realize that they've been duped. That's just cruel.

well, i'm glad you write 'they', as perhaps leonard was not party to this underhandedness. in fact i very much doubt he would risk being involved in such easily detectable fraudulence - even though it fooled me, i am ashamed to say. i can only conclude that this stunt is the work of someone with no scruples, someone who intentionally wanted to delude people. another name for the devil is 'the deceiver', and that creature has obviously been busy infiltrating the mind of whoever thought this was a good idea.

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indeed. i wonder sometimes if quotations attributed to famous people really were spoken by them. what makes me suspicious is that i know how easy it is to put words in another person's mouth. for example, at the bottom of a sketch i did of leonard a few years ago i quoted something he'd said to me. the drawing was on facebook for a long time, and everyone believed it to be true. the fact is that leonard never uttered those words at all, they were something i had dreamed up myself. i just thought it was something he would have said if he'd thought of it first. but my point is that i am surely not the only person who has done something like this, would everyone not agree?

[LisaLCFan]

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Bev has solved the mystery: Geoffrey is the devil (or perhaps just his/her advocate ). Now, everything around here makes sense!

[cohenadmirer]

Very nice to see that recent footage of Leonard , and such a good recitation . Fortunate that someone had a mobile phone handy

There didn't seem to be a claim in the video that the quote about his father was in leonard's own handwriting , just an implication that it was said , or written ,by Leonard .

Doesn't seem a big deal . The most potentially shocking revelation was that G was happy to wrongly ascribe a quote to LC ...... not really shocking though

[Geoffrey]

thank you, B4real, LisaLCFan and cohenadmirer, for your interest in this matter.

to be honest, i don't see how one can compare these two 'crimes'. leonard would probably gladly have written those words "my father served in the royal montreal regiment . . ." had he been asked to do so. the note from his hand could then have been scanned in and inserted in the video. laziness took over, however. it just seemed easier and quicker to type it using a handwriting font that vaguely resembled his.

my little indiscretion was just the opposite of laziness, and executed with the most noble of intentions. for i see myself as a parasite in reverse - a blessing. my time and energy secretly being used to enrich the lives of others. how many people like myself have quietly walked behind a vagrant and surreptitiously slipped a coin into his jacket pocket? that shows what type of person i am. "be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others, for if you do, you will have no reward from your father in heaven" - matthew 6:1. the sentence i attributed to leonard at the bottom of my sketch was not an isolated act. i am guilty of having done it on more than one occasion. another time i quoted him as saying "life is a picnic, we just don't know what's going to come out of the basket", "our hope lies in the distant seed", etc., etc. the list is endless, a vast number of original words of wisdom and cleverly composed witticisms. so now i am to be publicly flogged? all i have done is ransack my own intellectualism and donated it to those with a greater need.

[Vicomte]

....................... all i have done is ransack my own intellectualism and donated it to those with a greater need.

Oh yeah, we need such foolish things in our lives. Remember Mr Lincoln and what he thought about people who's intellect they believed was better than others?

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

Just one look and it was truly obvious that was never signed by yer man

[Cate]

leonard would probably gladly have written those words "my father served in the royal montreal regiment . . ." had he been asked to do so.

This is probably true ... why bother him with such details. many many years ago I used to do the same for my parents when alternative educational opportunities would present themselves outside of the traditional school walls.

[Cate]

... because LeonaRd is just that Rare.

His recitation of this memorable poem is peRfect.

the big R makes it look like a cat purring. This is one of the few poems that we had to memorize in school, year after year in Remembrance Day assemblies I remember reciting it altogether. I'm guessing that Leonard may have done that too, I don't know if they did that back then or in Quebec, but it was to hear him recite something so familiar.