{"id":278,"date":"2009-02-03T23:49:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T03:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=278"},"modified":"2009-02-04T00:53:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T04:53:26","slug":"bad-things-come-in-threes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Bad Things Come in Threes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his commentary on Horace’s Soracte Ode (1.9), David West writes:<\/p>\n

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“Horace says sententiously, ‘When winds stop blowing, trees stop shaking’, meaning of course that unpleasant things do not last for ever. This could be said of a plague of locusts or a broken ankle or a professor with tenure” (Horace Odes I: Carpe Diem<\/em>, Oxford 1995, 42-3)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The third unpleasant thing is odd at first glance, and suggests that West had at least one unpleasant colleague to put up with until he either died or retired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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