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INSCRUTABLE WISDOM IS IRKSOME

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From my bottomless pit of quotes that sound wise, yet have no discernible meaning, here’s one from the poet Ovid. It sounds appropriately abstruse. Full of the wisdom of ages and sages. But … what does it mean? Only the Master knows … and he’s not talking.

Irksome is annoying writ large - Marilyn, 2016

Irksome is annoying writ large – Marilyn, 2016

Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid to the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of the Emperor Augustus.

Born: March 20, 43 BC, Sulmona, Italy
Died: 17 AD, Constanța, Romania
Full name: Publius Ovidius Naso

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13 replies

  1. elvagreen123
    11/08/2016 • 02:00

    So now you have to make reading Ovid a habit?

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  2. judyt54
    11/07/2016 • 14:27

    or put another way, once you get used to the fact that your spouse is a snorer and always will be a snorer unless you strike him dead one night in a sleep deprived frenzy, the sooner you will be able to adapt to it, and, as my mother said more than once, ‘I sleep on my good ear. I never hear a thing.” Adapting sometimes involves ear plugs, too. 🙂

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      11/07/2016 • 18:15

      I used to snore before I lost weight, but I was gifted with a deaf husband. He doesn’t even have to pretend to not hear me. He really doesn’t hear me. Clearly our love was meant to be 🙂

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  3. swo8
    11/07/2016 • 13:00

    So we are just to “get use to it” that thorn in our side?
    Leslie

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  4. Martha Kennedy
    11/07/2016 • 11:22

    Yep. Like riding the stationary bike. I enjoy it now, even look forward to it. 🙂

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  5. angloswiss
    11/07/2016 • 10:17

    Umm, yes, the wise man has spoken. Irksome was never actually in my vocabulary until today. How irksome life can be sometimes.

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