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Take all the one good lines and make a condensed classic - make the "classics" easier to read;-) One time, in my ignorance and fancy, I declined the classics as being tainted by assoiciation with the public schools. Now, with the chip off my shoulder, I've become fonder of greco-roman works. ++points for christian hatred. Roger On 5/9/07, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Great Ovid story, Jon - thanks. Now, back to marking for me ... I wish > they'd all written just one, good, line ... > > Andrew > > On 09/05/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >On the other hand, there is Max Brod -- the closest thing to a widow Kafka > > >had -- who refused to burn Kafka's manuscripts despite the author's explicit > > >wishes. > > > > Maybe he was emulating Vergil, who tradition says asked his friends on his > > deathbed to burn the manuscript of the Aeneid. As far as I'm concerned, > > they should have done so. > > > > An ancient tradition relates that Ovid's friends said that there was only > > one line of his works they wish he hadn't written, and he replied that there > > was only one line of his works that he hoped would survive. It turned out > > of course to be the same line (his description of the Minotaur "semibovemque > > virum semivirumque bovem" ["both half-bull man and half-man bull."]) > > > > > -- > Andrew > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/ > -- My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde