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Wednesday, 20 May 2015

A kind of comedy

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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?
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2 comments:

  1. Demetrius21 May 2015 at 15:22

    Try seeing Osborne and Cameron as Steptoe and Son.

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  2. A K Haart21 May 2015 at 19:57

    Demetrius - who is Hercules the horse I wonder?

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