THE BOOK OF
GIANTS
The Classics stir things upGalileo gets into trouble
Chapter 4
The fClassics caused pretty much of a stir when the Giants rediscovered them,
2gBecause it looked like the ancient Greeks and Romans had invented an almost unlimited number of ways to have fun,
3hWhat with both of them having invented comedy and all,
4As well as all that other stuff.
5And so the Giants decided to try it all out,
6Just for ifun,
7And to have something to do while the naked ladies were eating,
8jWhich, to tell the truth, was quite a lot of the time.
9Some of the Giants thought it would be fun to try science,
10kEspecially anatomy,
11Which was on everyone’s mind,
12lFor some reason.
13Other Giants thought it would be fun to try writing comedy and tragedy and poetry,
14Since about the only kind of writing anyone had done lately,
15Say, for the last thousand years,
16Was recopying the mBible and making up the nLives of the Saints,
17Which wasn’t very exciting,
18oFor some reason.
19Some of the other Giants thought it would be fun to try pphilosophy,
20Which means “love of knowledge” and was a wide-open field,
21qSince no one had any knowledge at all about anything,
22Unless you count the church,
23rWhich, according to the priests, knew everything,
24sBut was keeping its mouth shut.
25And some of the Giants thought that thistory might be fun,
26But they couldn’t tell for sure,
27uBecause nothing had happened for quite a while,
28Unless you count vDark Ages,
29Which somehow don’t seem quite as interesting as naked ladies.
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