Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:29:18 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

<snippo>

Far sighted Bacon knew it would take centuries for his vision to come
true. Should Trump singlehandedly reverse centuries of sociological
ratcheting it'd be enough to make Bacon "sing the blues" as they say.
Only the blues didn't exist back in Bacon's day - ergo "Flow My Tears."

John Dowland, born 2 years after Francis Bacon and so a contemporary
of his, wrote, among others, lute songs with titles like:

Can She Excuse My Wrongs
I Saw My Lady Weep
and
Flow My Tears

so, yes, I would say people in Bacon's day sung the blues, even if the
genre by that name did not exist yet.

I wouldn't rule out such songs in Ancient Rome, or even Classical
Greece.

As I said elsewhere, songs about problems with romance appearto have
been around for a /very/ long time.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"