Rhapsodies

Today’s Rhyme ” The Old Man in the Velvet Coat” for me hits the land of Values Dissonance again. The poem doesn’t say anything about whether the “maid” (don’t know if that means girl or servant in the context, I went with the servant) wanted it or not… In fact it seems that the only thing that the rhyme disapproves of is the fact that the old man stiffed her with a coin she couldn’t spend… In other versions of this rhyme there’s more verses suggesting that the velvet coat was a way of making a foolish person look more important.

Well this starts the home stretch to the end of this thing, three quarters through. Feeling pumped.