Saturday, April 23, 2011
Why Not Me?
Homer, Iliad 6.208 (tr. A.T. Murray):
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Ever to be bravest and pre-eminent above all.James Hayford, Having to Be First:
αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων.
This having to be first
Whenever you compete
Even if you have to cheat
Must be an awful thirst.
Seeing someone must be last,
I reckon why not me;
Call this my gift to the
Unwillingly surpassed.
