Comments on: Aigamemnon (A Fragment)

By: Glen Tomkins

Glen Tomkins — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:10:32 +0000

I’m confused

So, where does AIGisthos figure into all of this?

By: andthenyoufall

andthenyoufall — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:17:04 +0000

This has inspired me to start composing the “Dance of the Seven Bailouts”

By: Erinyes

Erinyes — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:14:01 +0000

Stab him in the tub! Stab him in the tub!

By: kid bitzer

kid bitzer — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:56:12 +0000

“if Geithner can be made to swallow this than, please god, ”

you want the other “then” there, kieran.

otherwise—fucking brilliant.

By: Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:41:08 +0000

Nobody can compete with Housman. His fragment is the best parody every written.

By: Bruce Cohen (SpeakerToManagers)

Bruce Cohen (SpeakerToManagers) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:28:19 +0000

I could swear this production was being directed by Kermit the Frog, with Fozzie Bear playing the part of Geithner.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:15:46 +0000

Unfortunately, in the production I’m watching, the role of Clytemnestra is being played by Barack Obama, who—besides looking just awful in drag—brings a “let bygones be bygones” spirit to the character that is ill-suited to the play.

By: Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:12:53 +0000

Not all that relevant, but no thread on such a joke would be complete without a link to Housman’s “Fragment”: http://www.luc.edu/faculty/jlong1/FragTrag.htm

By: Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Teresa Nielsen Hayden — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:48:30 +0000

—No need. Patrick has already done so.

By: Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Teresa Nielsen Hayden — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:47:39 +0000

O, I am slain! I go now to bring these tidings to the fluorosphere.

By: PeeJ

PeeJ — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:30:00 +0000

Aigamemnon is hectoring the US.

By: JM

JM — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:26:02 +0000

Well, that’s what I get for responding to the conceit without reading the whole thing, first. There was already flaming poop in the original.

I am so ashamed.

By: JM

JM — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:21:31 +0000

And Aigamemnon answered, “Fly coach if you will, I shall make you no prayers to stay you. I have others here who will do me honour, and above all Karl Rove, the lord of counsel. There is no Cuomo here so hateful to me as you are, for you are ever quarrelsome and ill-affected, much like our Financial Products subsidiary. What though you be brave? Was it not heaven that made you so? Go home, then, with your Range Rovers and comrades to lord it over the Treasury Secretary. I care neither for you nor for your anger; and thus will I do: since Obama is taking Astynome’s dowry from me, I shall send her with a flaming bag of dog-poop, but I shall come to your tent and take your own prize, Societe Generale, that you may learn how much stronger I am than you are, and that another may fear to set himself up as equal or comparable with me.”

By: MarkUp

MarkUp — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:08:00 +0000

Was that Thursday Next over there, behind and to the left of Cassandra? When will Act II; Scream IV be posted?

By: Nix

Nix — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:59:02 +0000

OK, now I’ve read that, how do I get rid of the wheezing hiccups from minutes of concentrated laughter?

Brilliant stuff. More! More! (er, actually, since this means the financial system has to go into even deeper doldrums, less! less!)