Fun with the 'On Notice' Board:
I'd gladly be the blind bard who sings this epic.
I'd gladly be the blind bard who sings this epic.
posted by famulus_veritatis at 1:55 PM
Friday, August 25, 2006
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3 Comments:
If anything, Babs is jealous of my powerhouse voice...
Kids with lots of time can blog more than us farmers.
There be goats to fodder, corn to reap, and young farmhands to rear.
But the Bach thing over on Magister's blog has got me going again.
I think I most identify Colbert with the character in Book 2; Thersites who rails against the commanders. Odysseus cracks him between the shoulderblades with a club and all the troops laugh. "What a flood of abuse, Thersites! Even for you, fluent and flowing as you are. Keep quiet. Who are you to wrangle with kings, you alone? No one, I say - no one alive less soldierly than you... so stop your babbling... flinging indecencies in their teeth, your eyes peeled for a chance to cut and run for home."
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