How I have been doing this long weekend is not very well, in ways generically and specifically disheartening, but it has interested me to discover that while I have to do it by hand with pencil and paper, as if it's muscle memory rather than mental recall, I can still scan classical Greek sufficient to fake a Homeric epithet for our Hestia, slayer of towels: μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ τέκνου Ἥρας μακτροφόνοιο. (She sang to us earlier this evening of her triumph over the roll we were still using.) The attentive reader may note that I am relying heavily on both Attic and epic correption and an eighth-century audience would think I didn't know my theogony, but it makes me feel better.
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- 1: Are there some aces up your sleeve? Have you no idea that you're in deep?
- 2: One to sing and one to haul and one to heave me when I fall
- 3: This is what water, wind and time and toil reveal
- 4: We're the ones who stand here now, but many others will again
- 5: And the shrouds hum full of the gale of the grave and the keel goes out to the sea
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