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12/31/2003 Entry: "sparkly sparkly"

Interesting fact of the day.

"Caligula" means "little boots". My buddy Sarah's cat is named Lil Boots. He's not completely unlike Caligula; Boots once nominated Wee consul of Rome. But after that the parallels diminish with assuredly unastonishing rapidity.

This is my favorite of Will's sonnets. At first I thought it reminded me of Jeff Foxworthy, but I think that's a bit drastic. It's just sort of hip, like some laid back britpop tune. Or a commercial for plain old cotton underwear.

CXXX.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

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I once had a cat named Caligula...that was way before Lil' Boots' time, it was an American cat, and she was calico, with no boots. But Lil'Boots has no boots, either.

Posted by Keeper of Wee and Boots @ 12/31/2003 02:29 PM CST