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| zebulon |
A Butterfly On A Wheel - The drugs bust of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in 1967 and the subsequent trial is to be turned into a TV drama.
See also teletext.co.uk
cheers!! |
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| stonedinaustralia |
speaking of "butterflies on wheels" - does anybody know the source of that expression - "who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?" - i'd read it was a quote from the poet Pope and i've spent years trying to track it down without any luck
anybody got any clues??
TIA
[Edited by stonedinaustralia] |
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| Gazza |
never knew that myself but a quick search in Google shows that it was indeed a quote from Alexander Pope
The quote has been erroneously attributed to William Blake but its definitely by Pope. |
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| stonedinaustralia |
thanx gazza - at least i'm on the right track - i'd be intersted in reading the whole poem to get the full context of the line |
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| Monkey Woman |
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stonedinaustralia wrote:
speaking of "butterflies on wheels" - does anybody know the source of that expression - "who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?" - i'd read it was a quote from the poet Pope and i've spent years trying to track it down without any luck
anybody got any clues??
TIA
[Edited by stonedinaustralia]
I think I've struck gold through Google search. "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" is Line 307 from the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires by the English poet Alexander Pope (1688–1744), in which he ironically refers to a character named Sporus, making him seem insensitive to the point of inhumanity, likely to break a delicate and beautiful thing like a butterfly on a device of torture (the wheel, supplice for convicted robbers and highwaymen).
http://www.bartleby.com/100/230.152.html |
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| stonedinaustralia |
bless you monkey woman
i'd always understood that "the wheel" was a torture device
but thanks for finding the title - now i just have to track down a copy of the poem
thanks again - a mystery of many years now resolved |
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