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You can wordify anything if you just verb it.
9:58:45 PM 
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Still wondering where those theory cards came from.... Nope, not Paul, though he does point to a Chaucer link...with...side-by-side translation? Why would anyone need a side-by-side translation? Perhaps some glosses, but it looks more like an attempt to pass someone’s re-working of the Caunterbury Tales off as a legitimate attempt at kowtowing to modern audiences.
“...sweet showers fall...”? Pfah.
I said my piece on April earlier in the month, but it looks that little Powerbook battery mishap (note to Jay: it’s all better now, thank AppleCare) on the 17th ate my Radio April archive to any point earlier than that. Gr. I’ll get them back. Give me tonight.
Yes, Felicity, I can quote the intro to the general prologue by heart, not quite exactly, but still, no need to help. I hope the move goes well.
8:24:08 PM
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The mind works in funny ways sometimes. Walking among the cherry blossoms at the park today, and driving to Church, it was not Housman on my mind at all. Stuck in my mind was something like this:
Springtime in Avalle
and I don’t care what the priests do say:
I am taking my little boat
and I shall sail the river away.
Recognize it, or rather, does it ring a bell? My brain has mangled it in the ten plus years since I read the original. I’ll answer tomorrow if no one gets it today, but I would be disappointed in y’all if not one person gets it.
6:55:58 PM
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This is kind of late, being way past the ides of March, but Doc Weevil mentioned some time back that when Cæsar crossed the Rubicon, he probably quoted a Greek play rather than speaking good ol’ Latin “alea iacto esto” (the degenerate snob). Well, same thing when he died: You as well, child (literally, and you, child). This is not so much “not you, too, Brutus,” as “live by the knife in the back, die by the knife in the back, youngster.” Tough ol’ degenerate.
Of course, now that I write this, I can’t find a reference to it. Sigh. So take it with caution.
Discovery channel seems to be doing something on Caesar tonight though. TiVo!
5:05:10 PM
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