Subject: [Homestead] For all latter-day male hippies
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:34:36 -0500
The cyclops Polyphemous to his beloved, Galatea:
Abundant hair hangs over my fierce face
and shoulders, shading me, just like a grove;
but don't think me unsightly just because
I am completely covered in dense bristles:
unsightly is the tree that has no leaves,
the horse without a mane; birds have their plumage
and sheep are most attractive in their wool,
so facial hair and a full body beard
are really most becoming in a man.
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XIII (trans. Charles Martin)
[Homestead] For all latter-day male hippies,
Gene GeRue, 09/13/2007