Obama is Beowulf - Democratic Underground

Wise Child

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Mon May-05-08 11:12 PM
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Obama is Beowulf

Edited on Mon May-05-08 11:16 PM by Wise Child

Obama is Beowulf

Hillary is Grendel's Mother

Dean is King Hrothgar

McCain is the Dragon

and my copy of The Audacity of Hope is right next to my copy of Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf on my bookshelf.

:crazy:

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Mist

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Mon May-05-08 11:17 PM
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1. Oh, surely Barbara is Grendel's mother? nt

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Wise Child

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Mon May-05-08 11:20 PM
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2. Well, maybe

But I was thinking Grendel was doubt and cynicism, or something.

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Goblinmonger

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Mon May-05-08 11:21 PM
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3. Seamus Heaney is the shit

and his translation has made Beowulf accessible to another multitude of generations without dumbing it down one bit.

No comments on the political stuff. But who's Grendel, then?

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