"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Monday, March 22, 2021
Classical corner
Maurice Ravel's hauntingly lovely
Pavane
pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess).
And don't even get me started on Homer! I had to read the Lily Pad and the Oddity in high school and that stuff was in English, which hadn't even been invented when this Greek dude was shuffling around in his flip-flops and beach towel a million years ago. What's up with that?
I read that a month long conference of archeologists, historians, and cultural anthropologists recently convened to address the question of authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. They concluded that they had not actually been written by Homer, but by another poet of the same name.
Hey, the dude totally ripped that off from Joe Walsh!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think they settled out of court.
ReplyDeleteRavel has a history of that. He also stole his so-called "Bolero" from Disney's Fantasia.
ReplyDeleteDude's just a Biden-level plagiarist, ain't he?
ReplyDeleteSort of like that Shakespeare guy. All he ever did was string a bunch of cliches together and everyone's all, like "Oh, he's just the greatest!"
ReplyDeleteAnd don't even get me started on Homer! I had to read the Lily Pad and the Oddity in high school and that stuff was in English, which hadn't even been invented when this Greek dude was shuffling around in his flip-flops and beach towel a million years ago. What's up with that?
ReplyDeleteI read that a month long conference of archeologists, historians, and cultural anthropologists recently convened to address the question of authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. They concluded that they had not actually been written by Homer, but by another poet of the same name.
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