I just finished "reading" the Monk's Tale (and by reading I mean scanning and saying, "Yeah, I know what happened to Sampson, thank you, I don't need to read that), and he talks about the emperor Nero's life. Apparently from Suetonius (or Swetonius, as Chaucer says). I got all excited, but then there was no mention of the collapsible boat. I mean, really. That's pretty much the only thing I remember about Nero, and it isn't even in there.
I have not yet fixed Flickr--that's work, and my life has almost entire been consumed by Christmas planning and the Venerable Bede lately. (Really, Bede, you could have chopped the Ecclesiastical History of the English People in half by cutting out all those letters to Augustine of Canterbury from Pope Gregory the Great. Was that really necessary?) We booked plane tickets to Madrid today, so at least I'm going to be there. Even if the entire rest of the trip falls apart, I will have gone to Madrid.
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Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall, We must away, ere break of day Far over wood and mountain tall.
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4 comments:
Monika just wrote me a letter with that quote in it...it is pretty much amazing.
I thought about using Nero is my hero, but that line always kind of annoyed me. The rhyme is just...kind of gross, really. Not that I know what to put instead.
I went and reread them last night instead of reading Bede. We're pretty much geniuses cloaked in idiocy, you know that, right?
Oh yes, I know. We really should get them copyrighted before somebody steals them and makes millions.
Who's going to steal them? Most of our friends would be too embarrassed, I would think, and I certainly hope you or Monika aren't considering selling the manuscripts...
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