Horace

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Horace is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 29, 2021 and August 23, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “As Horace puts it, “why do you laugh? Change the name, and the joke’s on you!””; “Poetry itself ages: Shakespeare, Milton, Virgil, and Horace”. It most often appears alongside A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste, A Hymn to God the Father, Alabama.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: September 29, 2021
  • Last seen: August 23, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

September 29, 2021 · Original source
Or: sometimes pundits will, for example, make fun of excessively woke people by saying something like “in a world with millions of people in poverty and thousands of heavily-armed nuclear missiles, you’re really choosing to focus on whether someone said something slightly silly about gender?” Then they do that again. Then they do that again. Then you realize these pundits’ entire brand is making fun of people who say silly things (in a woke direction) about gender, even though there are millions of people in poverty and thousands of nuclear missiles. So they ought to at least be able to appreciate how strong the temptation can be. As Horace puts it, “why do you laugh? Change the name, and the joke’s on you!”
August 23, 2024 · Original source
Poetry itself ages: Shakespeare, Milton, Virgil, and Horace, are more used in the classroom than in the living room today, and so of the rest of them.