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"Tehee," quod she, and clapte the wyndow to.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Miller's Tale"
Virago
Noun: Inflected forms: pl. vi·ra·goes or vi·ra·gos
1. A woman regarded as noisy, scolding, or domineering.
2. A large, strong, courageous woman.
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- Dr. Virago
- ...is the pseudonym of an academic who works at a regional public university in a medium sized town that she affectionately calls Rust Belt. Dr. Virago is a medievalist, a humanist, and a professor of literature. She also sometimes runs marathons. She can be reached at drvirago2 [at] gmail [dot] com. She now blogs at Quod She 2.0 at http://quodshe.wordpress.com
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4 comments:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow...
Between the crosses, row on row...
That mark our place; and in the sky...
I'm reminded of the ending of the final season of BlackAdder, oddly, because I never would have expected such a show to have that ending, but what an ending...
Oh, OK. I can do this:
The larks, still bravely singing, fly...
It was a well-intentioned mistake that we turned this into "Veterans Day." To commemorate a specific civilizational trauma--even one nobody alive remembers--was appropriately solemn. But we Americans, we have to Universalize. And to just celebrate "veterans" always risks becoming another version of "the Old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est / Pro patria mori."
(Today's Verification Word: alisetim. Seems like maybe garbled Arabic, like one of those Latinized star names. Aldebaran, et al.)
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