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This scene is from the same cloister as the funny elephant posted previously.
The text underneath reads: “O quid faciunt homines mox pulveres futuri” (Hey man, what do you think you’re doing, as you’ll soon be turned into dust), the pessimistic approach to human vanity so popular during a long period of Western civilization, but rarely taken to heart.
The text underneath reads: “O quid faciunt homines mox pulveres futuri” (Hey man, what do you think you’re doing, as you’ll soon be turned into dust), the pessimistic approach to human vanity so popular during a long period of Western civilization, but rarely taken to heart.
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Dutch or German would be no problem at all. “Ach, was treiben die Menschen, die doch bald zu Staub werden werden?” A nice lesson in German for prospective visitors of Germany (whose Kathrin has left): “werden werden” is very funny, but also quite idiomatic. :-)
Important, of course, is the message: Why should you want to be on “What’s hot”, if you’re bound to fertilize the soil anytime soon?
BTW, I do think the remains dug out are human; otherwise image and text wouldn’t fit well together. Probably, the medieval people’s pumpkin skulls were due to bad food and lack of vitamins.
I suppose every era takes its particular circumstances for granted. The Middle Ages were rough, and I’m quite happy to be living in the present, but now we have a nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction (though not necessarily in Iraq), and state-controlled health care. If a medieval knight saw this, he would probably prefer fighting with his sword, and dying in peace. :-)
HEE HEE HEE Thank you for the german lesson
I wish I could remember it ;-))))
and well it's not that you should *want* to be on what's hot...sometimes you just
deserve to be...and it's the *sometimes* the inbetween events before you turn into fertilizer
that are the answer to any question that begins with "why should"
MWAH! almost there bestest bud!!! ANOTHER great inbetween event before we both turn into dust right? ;-PPPP
*sigh*
Those were the days, and they won’t come again!
(Oh well, perhaps after that Big Nuclear War... Let’s not despair!)
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