WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 5/5/2009 11:10:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, saintonge@telus.net writes:
Twitter and the short attention span of those who favour it turn historical insight into inanity. Linking the "wine-dark sea" to the later Peloponnesian Wars already separates us from its association with the death of Patroclus in the Iliad.>>
Even in the post-Twitter world, any given person will still recite nursery rhymes and song lyrics entire. There is something to be said for that sort of human ability.
Will
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn And where's the little boy who looks after the sheep? He's under the haystack fast asleep.
And the missing line:*
* Will you wake him? No, not I - for if I do, he's sure to cry*
*Unfortunately we lose the political meanings that often underlaid these rhymes.
Ec