One more thing
And one more thing:
Quisquis huc accedes
Quod tibi horrendum videtur
Mihi amoenum est
Si dilectat maneas
Si taedat abeas
Utrumque gratumYou who come here
Whoever you are
What may seem horrible to you
Is fine for me
If you like it stay
If it bores you go
I couldn’t care less.
(From the inscription that appears in Latin on a marble plaque at the entrance to Cardinal Chigi’s 17th century Villa Cetinale, at Sovicelli in Tuscany, discovered and translated by John Julius Norwich in “Still More Christmas Crackers – 1990-1999,” [Viking, Penguin Group UK]).
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Ted Chan, a colleague at The Baltimore Sun years ago, writes to alert me that Saturday, January 28, the second Saturday of the Trump presidency, is the first day of the Chinese Year of the Rooster:
“Fittingly, 2017 will be the Year of the Rooster. Puffed chest. Exaggerated Strut. Incessant, irritating noise. And Ruffled feathers!"
You and Ted should be focusing on more important things, like setting up a poker reunion in Florida next month. With your skills and ability to cheat members of the booboisie like me out of their hard-earned lucre, you will easily be able to recoup the cost of the trip.
ReplyDeleteChan is wrong, by the way. This is going to be the year of the Schmuck.
Pete