Andromache is a very strange play. I read it last night cause we're reading "Le Cygne" in French, and he talks about Andromache, and it's my precept reading for tonight. I'm not sure it's a tragedy. It's definately not a comedy, either. It's all full of anti-war rhetoric, with a great speech where Peleus tells Menelaus that he (Peleus) holds him (Menelaus) responsible for Achilles's death, for everyone knows Spartan women are sluts, and Menelaus should've just spat in the general direction of Troy, and married someone else. The only death is Neoptolomus's, but we never see Neoptolomus, and I have this impression of him being a bit of an ass. Andromache winds up at least relatively happy, marrying Helenus, and they are going to go off and create that "little Troy" thing from The Aeniad, Hermione and Orestes are happy cause now they are married and Neoptolumus is dead, and Peleus just has to bury his grandson and then he gets to go live with Thetis as a god for the rest of time. Menelaus goes off and we don't see him again. Andromache exits in the middle of the play, and is never talked about again until the end when Thetis is telling Peleus what is going to happen for the rest of time. Anyway, it's probably the weirdest Greek tragedy I've ever read. I'm inclined to think that it's only a tragedy in the sense that they perfomed it in a tragedy slot, after killing a goat.
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06:41:04 PM,Monday 4 November 2002
If someone hadn't hung up on two other people when she misheard what the person who wasn't on the phone said, she wouldn't be being snubbed right now.
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06:35:06 PM,Monday 4 November 2002
We have just made up the new circle of who kills who in Assassins. And again I feel all bad for my friends who are going to "die."
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08:20:50 PM,Sunday 3 November 2002
Knitting patterns always tell you to get too much yarn; I think patterns for sweaters should come with things like patterns for matching mittens and hats as things to go with your sweater, using your leftover yarn.
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02:40:36 PM,Sunday 3 November 2002
I made a mitten. I still have massive amounts of leftover yarn, and probably will continue to do so even after I make it's match.
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02:35:03 PM,Sunday 3 November 2002
My lips got so chapped it almost looks like I'm wearing lipstick.
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