Yesterday, the Reactionary Epicurean Blogger and I went to see the Yale Symphony Orchestra and the Glee Club perform the Carmina Burana. It was lovely, although his opera glasses (yes, he has opera glasses — why do you think he’s called the Reactionary Epicurean Blogger?) refused to focus. I still have the mildly-jazzy Tempus est iocundum stuck in my head.
To my dismay, however, Orff’s version didn’t include my very favorite bit of the Carmina:
Meum est propositum
in taberna mori
ut sint vina proxima
morientis ori.
Tunc cantabunt letius
angelorum chori:
“Deus sit propitius
huic potatori.”
It is my intention to die in a tavern (some medieval monk wrote), so that the wine will be near my dying mouth. Actually, I would like to die in a library, preferably leaning over Lewis & Short.
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