Mojo, The Bard, & Me

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,

But then woos best when most his choice is

froward.

 -Narrator

Venus and Adonis                           Line 570

If you recall, or even if you don’t, we started this Blog off with Venus and Adonis back in August. So this is our second visit to this poem. You can look at that first post here if you want.

Today’s line comes earlier in the poem though, right after Venus finally (this is line 570, after all) gets Adonis to allow her to have her way with him. And I think the line is saying that the difficulty in seducing him made the lovemaking that much better. There, simple as that. And by the way, that last word is not a typo. It’s not supposed to be forward. The word is froward and it means perverse, obstinate, willful, ungovernable. There, you learned something new. Or maybe you were already familiar with froward?

In any event, I guess this is a sentiment that you might hear often and about all sorts of things. And especially if you're young. "You know Dougie, you’ll appreciate that (fill in the blank here) so much more if you have to work and earn your own money to buy it." But will Dougie really appreciate it more? Will he?

This is a portion of the Snow Village stuff that we set up every Christmas Time. I like looking at it a lot, but it takes a lot of time and effort to set it up. Would I like looking at it as much if it didn't take all that time and effort to set up. Now that you mention it, I think I would. Oh well, so much for that theory.