Re: Classic Reg, keeping it classy
"Where other publications would shy from going out of their way to piss on a dead man's grave in public, this fine publication honors it's integrity by reminding us that wow, that guy could be a prick."
Byron:
Posterity will ne'er survey/ a nobler grave than this./Here lie the bones of Castelreagh/ stop, traveller, and p**s.
And Yeats on his own gravestone had inscribed:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death
Horseman, pass by.
tl;dr de mortuis nil nisi bonum was written in a day when people were worried about the vengeful spirits of the dead or, more prosaically, their living relatives who took unkindly to people being reminded that uncle Julius was an utter bastard. Today we need to be grown up and face up to the reality that heroes are often anything but.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
