All Poetry Is Crap Except For Mine
Virgil was a manatee,
Verging on insanity.
posted by brainmarket @ 9:33 AM
Sunday, October 30, 2005
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9 Comments:
You've broken my creative geart over poetry.
gorry
Brain, I am assuming that these two lines are original. It is customary now to write the name of the poet as "Vergil." His name was "Vergilius," but it became the norm in the English-speaking world to write "Virgil" because of associations, through Christianity, that were made to the word "virga," which means 'twig' or 'wand.' I woudn't tell you all this, except that the couplet here would be all the more effective if Vergil and Verging shared their first four letters.
Have you read any Vergil? I've taught him, so I'd love to discuss anything you know about him.
Benjamin Disraeli is famous for saying, "When I want to read a good book, I write one." I confess to liking that sort of arrogance.
I never knew that about Virgil/Vergil. I suppose there is some poetry which I enjoy, such as various limericks, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate. Maybe some of William Blake. Which reminds me . . . There once was a fellow named Blake . . .
Rebel: I assume you mean you have taught his work, and not HIM. Although, anything is possible.
There is much I would like to learn more about, but I am getting old.
Hah. It would be a good trick to teach Vergil himself. We in the business (and I use the word as you would use it in your profession) tend to use the writers' names as synonyms for their work. "Have you read Vergil." "No, I spend all my time with Cicero."
Don't give me that stuff about getting old. You're no older than I am, and I am just getting started. Here's a historical example. How old do you think Julius Caesar was when he first became consul of Rome and then took his army into Gaul? He was in his early 40s. He was an advanced but essentially mediocre figure in Rome before then. His great rival, Pompey, had had great military success in his twenties and was the man of the hour. But as he got older he couldn't sustain it, and Caesar crushed him.
Cicero wrote almost all of his great philosophical works when he was in his 60s
Kant didn't write his great works until he was in his 50s. He was just writing the accepted scholarly stuff up until then, but he read David Hume and his mind took off.
So, cut it out. You're making excuses or else allowing a silly culture that makes its money off of the idealization of youth to stifle you.
How old was brainmarket when he knocked up a 23 year old hottie?
Touce rebel: Martin learned something kneewwew hahahahahaha you were corrected muhahahaha
I love your brain, brain, your old wrinkly brain.
Oh, I see where he puts his energy then. No wonder he's feeling old. That'll do it. Caesar was in his 50s when he began his affair with Cleopatra, who was less than half his age. It wasn't too long after that he was assassinated. Muddled brain. Couldn't even see what Brutus and Cassius were up to, despite the fact that his past successes came to a great extent from his ability to read the motivations of others.
Hmm.
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