A rambling post, now with 33% more history!

[felis_ultharus]

Reading Henry IV, part I by Shakespeare. I'm loving it. I'm surprised it's not more popular -- I think his use of language is at its height, there, and his characters are even more interesting and better developed than in most of the Shakespeare I've read

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[jenjoou]

Prince Diarmuid and Tegid from Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry (which you really should read when all this is over) are very obviously based on Prince Hal and Falstaff in Henry IV part 1.

It is a great play. ^_^

[em_fish]

Oh, Diarmuid and Tegid.... *tearing up*

No wonder I liked History so much, it is the most tearjerking epic ever.

[felis_ultharus]

History history...? Or is it the title of a book?

If it's the first, I agree :)

[em_fish]

History history. Natch.

PS My GGK collection is your GGK collection.

[scottevil]

I "read" Sir Gawain in a really half-assed way. However, my exam essay on it was, in the prof's words, "very strong."

P.S. Dick Cheney was behind 9/11.

[felis_ultharus]

'I "read" Sir Gawain in a really half-assed way. However, my exam essay on it was, in the prof's words, "very strong."'

Better not make a habit of it -- if you read only everything half-assed, and learn to bullshit about it, they might make you a professor. Worse, if you don't read it at all, you could get tenure :p

Did you read it in the original or a translated version? I still have my own translation somewhere, though it needs some cleaning up.

(I caught a pun in the original that no one seems to have noticed -- I'm quite proud of that.)

"P.S. Dick Cheney was behind 9/11."I don't think he was, though I don't think he'd have had any scruples against doing something like that

[scottevil]

I just threw that out there because you mentioned him.

But there were unusual power-downs and evacuations of the World Trade Center mid to upper floors the weekend before 9/11. It was to plant the thermite explosives.

[em_fish]

FWIW, it's unlikely that explosives would have been necessary.
A structural engineer is close friends with our family. He said shortly after 9/11 that all of the hot fuel from two almost-full planes would have been sufficient to melt the steel frames of the buildings.
Although high-rises are typically built to withstand (for lack of a better word) being crashed into by airplanes, it is usually assumed that such a crash would be caused at a time when the plane would be closer to its arrival point than its departure point, when the fuel is low, because of a landing gone awry or engine failure

[ubergreenkat]

Henry IV part I rocks.

We did it last year at Concordia. :)

[felis_ultharus]

I was actually dreading it, because it sounded boring from the description. But I like it better than most other Shakespeare I've read :)