I am just sayin'
Jun. 26th, 2015 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI do not, of course, believe in divine Providence: but some things still seem preordained.
But since, my soul, we cannot fly
To Saturn nor to Mercury
- why on Earth*, pray tell, would Housman have chosen those particular two examples of planets they could not fly to, unless they actually could fly to other planets, eg Mars and Venus? It's right there, I tell you, it's textual.
Also his brother Laurence wrote a series of one-act plays about Queen Victoria, collected as Victoria Regina - so he would totally have written a play about Victoria Cocoon'd. What, I wonder, is the Latin for Cocoon'd...?
And in other news, other news may have swamped the announcement today, but I am entirely delighted to point out that a centenarian killer whale is running for election as mayor of a village on Orcas Island. And I really really hope she wins. (Karen asked about her policies, but I was unable to assist.)
*Heh, d'you see what I did there?
But since, my soul, we cannot fly
To Saturn nor to Mercury
- why on Earth*, pray tell, would Housman have chosen those particular two examples of planets they could not fly to, unless they actually could fly to other planets, eg Mars and Venus? It's right there, I tell you, it's textual.
Also his brother Laurence wrote a series of one-act plays about Queen Victoria, collected as Victoria Regina - so he would totally have written a play about Victoria Cocoon'd. What, I wonder, is the Latin for Cocoon'd...?
And in other news, other news may have swamped the announcement today, but I am entirely delighted to point out that a centenarian killer whale is running for election as mayor of a village on Orcas Island. And I really really hope she wins. (Karen asked about her policies, but I was unable to assist.)
*Heh, d'you see what I did there?