Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Random trivia
Cicero once calimed that someone wrote all 24 books of Homer's "The Iliad" in handwriting small enough to fit in a walnut shell. Over the years, several otheres repeated the feat. Over time, people came to refer to "the Iliad in a nutshell" as simply "In a nutshell," and used it to mean a condensed version of the whole story.
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Call me the cynic, but I doubt the tale. Maybe my name can be written on a grain of rice, but the Iliad on a walnut shell? Methinks not.
I'm a sucker for stuff like that! What a cute piece of trivia!
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