Currently reading "Don't Know Much About History," by Kenneth C. Davis. I'm only 32 pages into this one, but I'm realizing that when I have nothing to blog about, I can cooly steal someone else's writing.....ha.
Tonight I found this passage funny:
"After a twenty-five-day trek through the dense rain forests of Central America, Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama and sights the Pacific Ocean for the first time. He names it Mar del Sur (Southern Sea) and believes it to be part of the Indian Ocean. Political rivals later accuse Balboa of treason, and he is beheaded in a public square along with four of his followers. Their remains are thrown to the vultures."
What is funny about that, you ask? Well, the part about the vultures made me laugh first. It's not enough to behead them, and to behead them in public with all the crazy, smelly ignoramuses throwing rotting fruit and spitting on you while most certainly shouting all sorts of profanity. Nope, they could do better. They took the lifeless, and newly headless bodies and flung them to the vultures. Medeiveal people were cool.
Secondly though, I wondered if Rocky Balboa was descended from Vasco. And if so, was he aware of this travesty and mockery of his blood? Further, would these people have gotten away with trying to behead Rocko? Comments welcome as always....
2 comments:
did you hear about the beheadings in Rosarita recently?? Word.
is that a blunt on the table?
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