sovay: (Psholtii: in a bad mood)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2009-12-16 08:23 pm
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What spires, what farms are those?

From the Department of What the Hell, Brain, We're Making Fruitcake: Horace's labuntur anni (Odes 2.14) should be translated as "the years give us the slip." I have no idea where this precipitated from. I'm up to my wrists in flour and dried cherries. I was reading J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country (1980) before bed last night, but that only made me think of Housman.