Friday, January 16, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

[karoliner]

Both Keats and Shelley are buried in Rome and both died before 30, so this really is a coin flip unless you know the epitaphs.

Good thing I didn’t know Shelley was buried in Rome then! I knew Keats’s epitaph was something like "Here lies One whose Name was written in Water" so I thought it's probably not him. I only picked him because I didn’t know of anyone else.

[Silverfox]

A thought just came to mind.
Why did two of the most famous English poets get buried outside England? Someone in their family did not make an effort to have them returned to England? Or maybe someone from the government.
It's just a thought.

Keats died from tuberculosis. Back in those days, that wasn't the sort of body you moved; you put it underground as fast as possible and then burned the room it died in.

Shelley was cremated after drowning, in accordance with Italian law...and they kept a souvenir of him to pass around so they didn't need to trot the ashes around everywhere.

OK. As Emily Latella would say, "Never mind".

[opusthepenguin]