French Dancer Dressed as Salammbo from the 1880s
Written by Teresita Blanco (The Artsy Sister)
Salammbo was a fictional character based on a so called Historical novel. People lately take historical novels seriously. Most of the time, people just went to Wikipedia for a few minutes and then they spilled out a bestseller. People tend to be very foolish taking works of people with a diploma seriously. I actually caught the Dean of History of FIU in an error. He mistranslated the Iliad. I knew because I read the original book in Spanish, instead of in English.
His translation made no sense and I called him on it to get an extra point. He was a douche and I made him feel very foolish in his old age. A diploma doesn't mean you are immune to mistakes. Now back to Salammbo, it was Gustave Flaubet most famous work. I never read the book, because a lot of classics I read tended to be pretty boring. I do not know why they were considered Classics.
I should get around to reading it over to top to give it a fair chance. Nah, I am not going to bother. Books from the 1880s tend to be clones of Leon Tolstoy. They just rant and rant and rant about hats and other nonsenses. When not boring you with hats, they go on about morality, like it was a new thing they discovered. Rants about morals are as ancient as the Ancient Greeks. I do not want to be lecture, and even an illiterate fellow knows the difference between right and wrong.
