Any song that rhymes those words is clearly one I Need!Now. As is any song with "brindled in blood." (I intend to trash introduce the myrmidons to Orpheus after they I get done with Oedipus and Iocaste.)
I can think of way worse introductions than Paul. And Lehrer is certainly appropriate.
In re: #7 -- I bounced off the classic Penguin prose translation of the Metamorphoses in college; I first read it all the way through in verse ... sometime early grad school, say around age 23, shortly after discovering Catullus. I then glommed onto everything else and have been arguing with him ever since.
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trashintroduce the myrmidons to Orpheus aftertheyI get done with Oedipus and Iocaste.)I can think of way worse introductions than Paul. And Lehrer is certainly appropriate.
In re: #7 -- I bounced off the classic Penguin prose translation of the Metamorphoses in college; I first read it all the way through in verse ... sometime early grad school, say around age 23, shortly after discovering Catullus. I then glommed onto everything else and have been arguing with him ever since.
Thankee.
---L.