Sunday 10 May 2020

Covidology VII


Our Text for Today:

With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were within. Without was the “Red Death”.

(from Masque of the Red Death)

The improvisatori are the most numerous followed closely by the buffoons bladder whacking the populace with bi-orchid balloons.

1 comment:

john doyle said...

I've got the symptoms app on my mobile: Are you experiencing sharp pains? Bouts of sudden dizziness? Profuse bleeding at the pores? Scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face? Oh wait, I don't have a mobile...