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Welcome to the Free Interactive Musical Virtual Bedside Companion
to the The Bloody Funny History of Rome
updated every day with new cartoons, jokes and laughs. Click the
contents bar on the left for different pages. It's said that the only accurate quotation is a misquotation, the
one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it, and the very best humor
always offends somebody - so there should be something here for
everyone!
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Chapter 1 of The Bloody Funny History of Rome is a Slave's
address which begins
"Tell the reader, Salve" since all ancient books were
read aloud by Reading Slaves and no self-respecting Roman would ever
dream of reading to themself when they had an expensively trained
specialist to do it for them - who also served hot honeyed-wine and
massaged your feet. So, for an
authentic historical experience you should have somebody else read this
page aloud to you. If you don't have a slave, I can lend you one of ours
(since this is a special occasion) so if you'd like to lie back,
relax like a real Roman and LISTEN TO THE READING SLAVE READ THIS PAGE. But please don't
over-use the Reading Slave! The Roman philosopher and bookworm Pliny was
known to make his Reading Slave recite at such long length that he ended
up spitting blood!
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While the other chapters all have a commentary on their
daily cartoons, this introduction doesn't, since it's just to give you a
taste of what you're in for. If you know already what the cartoon is all
about - well done!
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