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Keep calm and carry on
Dec. 27th, 2011 07:35 pmToday, I have been buying things. Or, at least, arranging to buy things, since I need new running shoes. There is a sale on, so for the very first time ever, I may get two pairs of running shoes in one year.
(My present footgear selection stands at boots two pair, flat formals one pair, dead and holy [sanctified and crucified] running shoes one pair, flipflops one pair. I'm not a shoe-y person. But the thought of having two whole pairs and not needing to worry makes me ungodly gleeful.)
Homer 1.130-140.
Answering him Lord Agamemnon said,
"Don't in this way, though you're good at it, godlike Achilles,
deceive me with your wit, for you won't outwit me, or win me over.
Are you willing, so that yourself you may hold your honour-prize, for me alone
to be left here lacking, while you call on me to give mine up?
But if they won't give me an honour-prize, the great-souled Achaeans
packed in close ranks, befitting my spirit, so it will be worth no less,
But if they won't give me one, I'll take it for myself,
going to your honour-prize, or Aias', or Odysseus',
I'll carry it off by force of arms - and he'll have been angered, whoever I come to.
But we'll consider these things in turn...."
...to be continued.
I have bought books. It has been a good day.
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(My present footgear selection stands at boots two pair, flat formals one pair, dead and holy [sanctified and crucified] running shoes one pair, flipflops one pair. I'm not a shoe-y person. But the thought of having two whole pairs and not needing to worry makes me ungodly gleeful.)
Homer 1.130-140.
Answering him Lord Agamemnon said,
"Don't in this way, though you're good at it, godlike Achilles,
deceive me with your wit, for you won't outwit me, or win me over.
Are you willing, so that yourself you may hold your honour-prize, for me alone
to be left here lacking, while you call on me to give mine up?
But if they won't give me an honour-prize, the great-souled Achaeans
packed in close ranks, befitting my spirit, so it will be worth no less,
But if they won't give me one, I'll take it for myself,
going to your honour-prize, or Aias', or Odysseus',
I'll carry it off by force of arms - and he'll have been angered, whoever I come to.
But we'll consider these things in turn...."
...to be continued.
I have bought books. It has been a good day.
( Read more... )
