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FALLEN PILIPILI LIVED BY EHRMANN'S DESIDERATA

Casket bearing the remains of veteran sports journalist Oscar Pili pili.

Nairobi; Kenya: "He went placidly amid the noise and haste for he knew what peace there is in silence," American poet Max Ehrmann would have aptly eulogised Oscar Pilipili.

I am not certain Oscar read Ehrmann's master piece, Desiderata. Yet the man his bosom pals called Lipilipi lived by the very words and punctuations of Ehrmann's poem "desired things."

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