He raises plenty of good points which I would never have thought of because my mind has mercifully expunged all memories of the notoriously unreadable epic poem which is the universal bane of high school existence.Do they still try to read Beowulf in high school in the original Old English? That could be used to extract Gitmo confessions if the high lords ban waterboarding. You want them to sing? Just make those Taliban dudes read and discuss Beowulf, and they'll be memorizin' the Lord's Prayer and singin' like the Rat Pack after a pitcher of Martinis.
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Is Beowulf the movie a reasonable interpretation of the famous saga?
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