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Pennies crash down from the sky
I did not sleep at all last night. This is much less entertaining than it sounds. I am hoping not to repeat the trick tonight.
I know the last time I read Watership Down (1972) was in seventh grade, two years before I started Latin, but I still have no excuse for realizing only this afternoon that it is completely the Aeneid if someone had listened to Kassandra. The book's first epigraph is even some stichomythia from Agamemnon: φόνον δόμοι πνέουσιν αἱματοσταγῆ (line 1309). Hey, Dawn, how're the wife and kids? Marblehead says hello.
I know the last time I read Watership Down (1972) was in seventh grade, two years before I started Latin, but I still have no excuse for realizing only this afternoon that it is completely the Aeneid if someone had listened to Kassandra. The book's first epigraph is even some stichomythia from Agamemnon: φόνον δόμοι πνέουσιν αἱματοσταγῆ (line 1309). Hey, Dawn, how're the wife and kids? Marblehead says hello.
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Now I really want to reread Watership Down. Which I've been meaning to do for ages, anyway.
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Now that the penny has finally dropped on my head, I should really do some kind of actual critical analysis of the text . . .
Now I really want to reread Watership Down. Which I've been meaning to do for ages, anyway.
Let me know what you think!