6/21/2020 blog

I don’t usually blog on the weekend, but I want to get this off my mind.

I had a conversation with a smart former English teacher when 19.  I quoted that 80s pop song title “Boys Don’t Cry.” I think the song is really ironic, but I quoted it to him literally. He said, “boys don’t cry, but MEN DO.”

There is a saying from The Aeneid, “lacrimae rerum,” the tears of things.