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[sovay]

Despite the snow emergency lights flashing blue all over town since yesterday afternoon, the promised storm was a thin dusting in our back yard and some rain. I am sad not only because of the reinforcement of climate change, but because I really had been looking forward to snow. I miss it. Yesterday morning I found myself at the Back Bay T station for a doctor's appointment and it seemed unreal yet calendrically undeniable that I had not been out there in four years. I meant to wander around afterward and look for the former site of the Copley Theatre, but all I had time to do was make it to my next appointment. Have some links.

1. Graham Fuller's "Powell and Pressburger: the glueman cometh" is a beautifully detailed discussion of A Canterbury Tale (1944), which I am resolved to see someday in a theater. I am afraid I cannot accept any heterosexual reading of Colpeper, but at least the author is one of the very few critics of my experience to have paid attention underneath the closing credits.

2. I read Lilian Bowes Lyon's "Daybreak" (1941) and Edward Field's "World War II" (1967) within a day of one another; there is no moral, except that they chimed.

3. Obviously I took the internet quiz to determine which ancient epic poem you are. It seems to have determined that I am "the argonautica: like if homer and the library of alexandria fucked." Please advise if I should feel attacked.

4. When I was feeling particularly bad, spatch sent me some volcano snails.

5. I was close to tears while reading about the unexpected altruism of elephant seals, which I suppose will continue to happen to me for some time when some small thing in distress is saved. The existence of the Hitler beetle made a sort of astringent chaser.

"Art makes me happy!" Rob just had to listen to me yell. "Why do people make it so difficult to make art?"

Comments

[muccamukk]

I got the Iliad, probably a sign I should read that new translation.

[chanter1944]

Evidently, I am The Odyssey. Well then.

[redbird]

I got the Iliad.

[gwynnega]

I got the same result as you in the quiz. I am okay with this!

I assume there must be a band called the Hitler Beetles. (Or maybe the Hitler Beatles.)

[pameladean]

The Annales?

There were no right answers to the food question.

P.

[anna_wing]

I am the Epic of Gilgamesh, I suspect because of my rejection of dactylic hexameter, which is not my favourite.

[yhlee]

i got the aeneid??

i still have no clue what a dactyl is - i got the english teacher who didn't believe in making us memorize that stuff and now i have to google it every time :/

[selkie]

No, Virgil, no: Not even the first of the Romans can learn His Roman history in the future tense. Not even to serve your political turn; Hindsight as foresight makes no sense. objectively the most Powerful epic...... but will you use those powers for good or evil?

Huh.

[batdina]

For some reason I'm The Aeneid. I do not know why and I'm not sure I'm up for rereading it now. Maybe next year?

[genarti]

God, yes. I was so excited for the snow (not to mention coming home from a visit to my parents a day early in anticipation of it), and then it was just an utter bust. I was sad and frustrated about it all day, for both climate change reasons and personal love of winter snow reasons. I guess it's heartening in a way that nearly everybody else seems equally frustrated and sad about it, but I'd rather have the snow.

[dhampyresa]

I am The Epic of Gilgamesh. I do want a several days nap and my lacunae are very gay.