As usual, it takes an external source to rouse me from torpor... And this time it is the tried and true Writer's Almanac. Today they featured Fragment B of Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno or, Rejoice in the Lamb... Imperative neo-Latin verb followed by ablative noun in case you were curious. Anyway, I was weirded out how a devotional poem could contain over ten lines devoted to the poet's cat, so I looked it up.
It ain't just the cat. In the 1200 lines of the poem, Smart addresses Noah's Ark, the Apostles, Newton, mythical beasts lifted from Pliny the Elder, John Locke, the Ars Poetica, and, uh, oh yea. God and that cat of his.
Anyway, there's your randomness for today. ;)
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