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Suzanne Vega's Favourite playlist:
Bigger Than My Body, John Mayer from Heavier Things Time and Love, Laura Nyro, from New York Tendaberry Trouble, Coldplay from Parachutes St. Teresa, Joan Osborne from Relish American Tune, Paul Simon from There Goes Rhymin' Simon Like a Tattoo, Sade from Love Deluxe Barely Breathing, Duncan Sheik from Duncan Sheik Living It Up, Rickie Lee Jones from Pirates Story of Isaac, Judy Collins from Who Knows Where the Time Goes Red Rain, Peter Gabriel from So Can't Let Go, Lucinda Williams from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Fortress around Your Heart, Sting from The Dream of the Blue Turtles Ring of Fire, Johnny Cash from 16 Biggest Hits: Johnny Cash |
It's all Greek to me ;-D
Stephen Halliwell GREEK LAUGHTER A study of cultural psychology from Homer to early Christianity In the third century BC, when Roman ambassadors were negotiating with the Greek city of Tarentum, an ill-judged laugh put paid to any hope of peace. Ancient writers disagree about the exact cause of the mirth, but they agree that Greek laughter was the final straw in driving the Romans to war. One account points the finger at the bad Greek of the leading Roman ambassador, Postumius. It was so ungrammatical and strangely accented that the Tarentines could not conceal their amusement. The historian Dio Cassius, by contrast, laid the blame on the Romans’ national dress. “So far from receiving them decently”, he wrote, “the Tarentines laughed at the Roman toga among other things. It was the city garb, which we use in the Forum. And the envoys had put this on, whether to make a suitably dignified impression or out of fear – thinking that it would make the Tarentines respect them. But in fact g...
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