(Although I will argue -- after reading too many articles on the Aeneid recently -- that a lot of scholarship is fanwank :-).
TRUER WORDS HAVE NEVER BEEN SPOKEN. Oh Lord. I remember reading an article on Horace, the specifics of which of course now elude me, but the gist was that in one ode or another if word X was actually a mistranscription of word Y, how that would make sense. To which I replied (in my head as I'm pretty sure the author of said article is dead), "Well now you're just making shit up. Srsly. That is a huge what-if to randomly write a paper about, dude."
Erm, sorry. Topic?
Oh yes, I don't think Bucky is actively vengeful either. I think he's more of the canary in a coal mine. Only now it's actually too late to get out and everybody's going to die of methane poisoning. Or, abandoning the metaphor, Bucky just stands as an example of how Joe's screwed it up so badly.
and it seems that the downward descent of the band is hastened after the visit to the farm.
Yes, definitely, I get that exact same moment-at-the-top-of-the-roller-coaster-type feeling. See? This is why I keep you around--you always say what I'm thinking and manage to do so without elaborate, slightly silly comparisons.
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Date: 2007-11-19 11:50 pm (UTC)TRUER WORDS HAVE NEVER BEEN SPOKEN. Oh Lord. I remember reading an article on Horace, the specifics of which of course now elude me, but the gist was that in one ode or another if word X was actually a mistranscription of word Y, how that would make sense. To which I replied (in my head as I'm pretty sure the author of said article is dead), "Well now you're just making shit up. Srsly. That is a huge what-if to randomly write a paper about, dude."
Erm, sorry. Topic?
Oh yes, I don't think Bucky is actively vengeful either. I think he's more of the canary in a coal mine. Only now it's actually too late to get out and everybody's going to die of methane poisoning. Or, abandoning the metaphor, Bucky just stands as an example of how Joe's screwed it up so badly.
and it seems that the downward descent of the band is hastened after the visit to the farm.
Yes, definitely, I get that exact same moment-at-the-top-of-the-roller-coaster-type feeling. See? This is why I keep you around--you always say what I'm thinking and manage to do so without elaborate, slightly silly comparisons.