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April 16, 2005
Lincoln, updated
From the Los Angeles Times on a new Abraham Lincoln museum:
Even when the historical record is unambiguous, the museum sometimes improvises. John Wilkes Booth famously declared "sic semper tyrannis" (Latin for "thus always to tyrants") after assassinating Lincoln. That sounded too arcane for modern ears. So in one of the multimedia presentations, the script writers have Booth growling instead: "Vengeance shall be mine."
ARCANE: "Four score and seven years ago ..."
MODERN: "A while back ..."
ARCANE: "Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be
done today."
MODERN:: "Just do it."
ARCANE: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
MODERN: "We’re all, like, in this together, yo."
ARCANE: "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
MODERN: "Keep it real."
Posted by teb at April 16, 2005 10:54 AM