Ubi sunt

[Harrison Hill]

"Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?
Where's the street-wise Hercules to fight the rising odds?"

- could be seen as an example of the Ubi Sunt motif in literature.

...says wikipedia about a piece of "literature". I know you love your
trivia - you can Google the answer when you are good and ready - but
can you place where you heard this example of "ubi sunt"?

[R H Draney]

Harrison Hill filted:

Yes I can...some fellow calling himself Harrison Hill posted it on a newsgroup
some time in the very late Pleistocene....r

--
Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.

[LFS]

Bum. That's what comes of reading aue from the bottom up instead of
threadwise. Now I'll have blessed Bonnie all day.

--
Laura
(emulate St. George for email)

[John Dean]

Your Bonnie doesn't lie over the ocean? <BEG>
--
John Dean
Oxford

[Don Phillipson]

"Harrison Hill" <harri...@gmx.com> wrote in message
news:cfaa193f-12cf-4fac...@f20g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...

Ou sont les neiges d'antan?

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

[CDB]

Don Phillipson wrote:

> "Harrison Hill" <harri...@gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>> "Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?
>> Where's the street-wise Hercules to fight the rising odds?"
>>
>> - could be seen as an example of the Ubi Sunt motif in literature.
>>
>> ...says wikipedia about a piece of "literature". I know you love
>> your trivia - you can Google the answer when you are good and
>> ready - but can you place where you heard this example of "ubi
>> sunt"?
> Ou sont les neiges d'antan?
>>

And, somewhere between the two, "hwaer cwom?" The pleasure of finding
a good ghit on that phrase was somewhat diluted by the discovery that
it had been redirected to a Warticle on "ubi sunt", but I can at least
point out that the "work of giants" referred to in its section on OE
is actually the "cunning work of giants", "orthanc enta geweorc".
Prof. Tolkien, come on down.
>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubi_sunt

[Peter Moylan]

Gone to graveyards, every one.

--
Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org
For an e-mail address, see my web page.

[James Hogg]

Myles na gCopaleen enables you to answer that question with:
"Right in that bucket, you fool!"
http://hardcorefornerds.tumblr.com/post/2062479010

--
James

[Ian P Noble]

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case it genuinely left the
page complete with full score and vocal track; I was hearing it in my
head by the time I was halfway through the first line.

Cheers - Ian
(BrE: Yorks., Hants.)