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And what is all this
life but a kind of comedy, wherein men walk up and down in one another's
disguises and act their respective parts, till the property-man brings them
back to the attiring house. And yet he often orders a different dress, and
makes him that came but just now off in the robes of a king put on the rags of
a beggar. Thus are all things represented by counterfeit, and yet without this
there was no living.
Desiderius Erasmus - In Praise of Folly (1511)
Now the election is behind us we have the razzmatazz to look forward to followed by a long coast downhill if the past is any guide to the future. Which it isn't of course so why not be optimistic and see it as Erasmus saw it - as a kind of comedy put on for our benefit?
2 comments:
Try seeing Osborne and Cameron as Steptoe and Son.
Demetrius - who is Hercules the horse I wonder?
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