Ides of March
ICON Day is over. It went well. I am tired and not planning to work very hard today. I may just take a looong lunch.
Here is something exciting. As it turns out, we are going to be in Rome on the Ides of March (March 15). Though I don’t know that it’s exceptionally interesting (and I think you might need a government permit to get into the guts of it), I plan to stand as near as I can to Pompey’s Curia on that day, the site of Caesar’s assassination.
I will say “Et tu, Brute?” and feel all excited. This will be especially appropriate if a pigeon craps on me at that moment or something. Does anybody know if “Et tu, Brute?” is purported to be an actual quote out of Caesar’s mouth, or is a line from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar that has gotten so well-known it’s perceived as a real quote?
Here it is, complete with romantic scaffolding.
