Was't Septimus Severus the name of the suicidal soldier in Mrs. Dalloway?
I would feel a lot smarter about invoking Woolf if I had any idea whether I'm right or not.
Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....
Giles ,'Chosen'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Nutty - Nov 07, 2005 12:55:24 pm PST #9419 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Fred Pete - Nov 07, 2005 4:47:45 pm PST #9420 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Septimus Harding was a character in Trollope's Barsetshire novels.
Just to tie in with the earlier conversation in the movie thread.
Betsy HP - Nov 07, 2005 5:33:46 pm PST #9421 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Septimus is also the romantic hero of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.
billytea - Nov 07, 2005 6:17:53 pm PST #9422 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Can anybody name 12 Caesars in order?
My guess off the top of my head was Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vitellius, Galba, Otho, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. I didn't quite get the year of the four emperors in the right order, though.
Who can name the 5 Good Emperors?
Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius. Leaving aside Marcus Aurelius' co-ruler Lucius Verus.
I love it! I'm having Roman emperor, Roman emperor, Roman emperor, Roman emperor, Roman emperor, Roman emperor, Roman emperor, Roman emperor, baked beans, Roman emperor and Roman emperor!
Trajan, people, Trajan. Who was Spanish, and thus the first non-Italian emperor.
Correction: his family was still Italian, originally from Umbria. They'd just settled in Spain. The first non-Italian emperor, IIRC, was Phillip the Arab, though Elagabalus had had a Syrian mother. But I could be wrong.
Nutty - Nov 07, 2005 7:01:18 pm PST #9423 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
You know, I am surprised this list of emperors did not include a single penguin. Billytea, I hardly know you.
billytea - Nov 07, 2005 7:22:28 pm PST #9424 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
You know, I am surprised this list of emperors did not include a single penguin. Billytea, I hardly know you.
What, I can't have layers? In the words of Bucky Katt, "I've got nipples, you know. They don't work, but I've got 'em."
Volans - Nov 08, 2005 12:26:39 am PST #9425 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Trajan's the shizznit!
I love this board.
With a mad passionate kind of love.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 08, 2005 5:31:01 am PST #9426 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Sadly reading Vergil's Aeneid in high school forever stigmatized learning about Roman History for me. Though if there had been visual aids of the James Purefoy showing the Full Monty variety back then, I might have overcome the stigma...
sumi - Nov 08, 2005 5:37:16 am PST #9427 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Science Fiction Weekly interview with George R.R. Martin.
Apparently, A Feast for Crows is the topselling Science Fiction/Fantasy book on Amazon - or was on November 4th. I went to the library and cleared up my fines in anticipation of it - I'm 4th on the waiting list for the book.
lisah - Nov 08, 2005 7:23:24 am PST #9428 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
Though if there had been visual aids of the James Purefoy showing the Full Monty variety back then, I might have overcome the stigma...
oh hell yeah