Ahahahah don't worry, every time I say "This is the last time I quote the Classics/LOTR/Emperor's New Groove", I'm always lying, even if I mean to. It's stronger than me. I'm glad it gives more insights and additions, tho! Can't wait for DA4 to show more Tevinter and more Dorian, please Bioware. (Give me time for the Emperor's New Groove quotes. They're gonna be here.)
I love the graffiti in Pompeii! It's the thing I look forward to see the most, when I'll be able to visit! I agree, tho, as much as I agree in teaching students high literature, the Aeneid and Cicero (as much as I hated Cicero back then)... Classics, both Latin and Greek, has this aura of seriousness around them that is really nasty and really doesn't need to be. I remember at school I hated Latin and Latin Literature and Latin history (too imperialistic, and none that just... you know, everyone agrees that Ancient Athenians were little shits, but try and say that the Roman Empire was not that good and fueled by slaves, that roman historiography is not at all accurate when speaking of other populations...). It all changed when I had a great professor who made us read Satyrical works, and funny poetry. It all felt SO RELATABLE, all of a sudden. I still didn't apply to Classics at uni because I sincerely don't want to translate Cicero in my life ever again if I can help it), but it really should change, Classic literature is so much more than philosophy and war reports!
In a way, it's like the system teaches thinks like Will the Bard or Chaucer. Every single comedy Will wrote is basically a long dick joke, and I swear that none of those stupid teachers ever actually read the Canterbury tales. "I'd rather hang my bugle in an invisible baldric..." Even the name of that play, "Much Ado About Nothing" is a dirty joke, FFS. "Nothing" was Elizabethan slang for lady bits. If our school system weren't as Victorian, students would be far more interested in learning.
Heck yes for both! Good Olde Will had a problem with puns (also for him is even more stupid to ignore the dick jokes, you're erasing the fact that he was writing for both aristocracy AND the commoners, and was great because he managed to entertain both at the same time). Same for Dante who wrote a self-insert fic with his hero Virgil who likes him a lot, where he can complain all he wants of people who did him wrong and say how cool he is and describe FARTS! It can be said of all history and literature and art: we've always been a quirky species with a perk for awful humour in serious places, it's really a pity when high art gets taken seriously... It just makes it unnecessarily boring.
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