{"id":44,"date":"2005-08-20T23:50:38","date_gmt":"2005-08-21T03:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=44"},"modified":"2013-09-01T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T23:04:06","slug":"spooneristic-misreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Spooneristic Misreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my trip to the U.N.C. library, I&#8217;ve been leafing through <em>Toto Notus in Orbe, Perspektiven der Martial-Interpretation<\/em> (ed. Farouk Grewing, Palingenesis LXV, Stuttgart, 1998). One sentence in T. J. Leary&#8217;s paper on the <em>Xenia<\/em> and <em>Apophoreta<\/em> caused a double-take. On page 46, he has just listed several filthy jokes in the two Saturnalian books, and goes on to explain that the two are not so different from the rest of Martial as one might expect:  &#8220;They bear many of Martial&#8217;s most appealing hallmarks, for instance . . . .&#8221; Given the context, I at first misread this as &#8220;appalling heelmarks&#148;.<\/p>\n<p>My subconscious may have been influenced by Hank Thompson&#8217;s punning lyric:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Every man must leave his footprint<br \/>\non the shifting sands of time,<br \/>\nbut I&#8217;ll just leave the mark of a heel.<br \/>\nShe was mine for ten long years:<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s about ten thousand beers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The story gets grimmer from there. Thompson seems to have been influenced by <s>Emerson<\/s> Longfellow:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lives of great men all remind us<br \/>\nWe can make our lives sublime,<br \/>\nAnd, departing, leave behind us<br \/>\nFootprints on the sands of time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always liked the anonymous parody:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lives of great men all remind us,<br \/>\nAs we o&#8217;er their pages turn,<br \/>\nThat we too may leave behind us<br \/>\nLetters that we ought to burn.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my trip to the U.N.C. library, I&#8217;ve been leafing through Toto Notus in Orbe, Perspektiven der Martial-Interpretation (ed. Farouk Grewing, Palingenesis LXV, Stuttgart, 1998). One sentence in T. J. Leary&#8217;s paper on the Xenia and Apophoreta caused a double-take. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=44\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,73],"tags":[316],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-literature","category-nachleben","tag-martial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}