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

On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:47:49 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/18/2024 6:45 PM, William Hyde wrote:

Paul S Person wrote:

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

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John Dowland, born 2 years after Francis Bacon and so a contemporary
of his, wrote, among others, lute songs with titles like:
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Can She Excuse My Wrongs
I Saw My Lady Weep
and
Flow My Tears
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so, yes, I would say people in Bacon's day sung the blues, even if the
genre by that name did not exist yet.
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I wouldn't rule out such songs in Ancient Rome, or even Classical
Greece.
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As I said elsewhere, songs about problems with romance appearto have
been around for a /very/ long time.

 
But he could also be less serious.
 
In a song the singer tells of his love for Cynthia, and how he carves
her name into a tree.
 
But later in the same song:
 
"If Cynthia crave her ring of me I blot her name out of the tree".

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Is 'Greensleeves' an early Blues song?

I have no idea.

I /do/ know that Flanders & Swann ascribe it to King Henry VIII. Which
is credited with making it /very/ popular among those wishing to keep
their heads.

And, since the genre "Blues" did not exist then, it could only be a
"blues" song at best, and possibly not even that, depending on how
much semantic goo applies to musical genres and their names.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"