Last night I dreamed that I moved back to AK and was unemployed. I just wandered around marveling at how far my looser friends had fallen.
Who the fuck is boethius?
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was born in or near Rome around the year 480 A.D. Orphaned, he was brought up in the household of one of the richest and most venerable aristocrats of the time, Symmachus. He married Symmachus's daughter and pursued a typical career for a senatorial scion of the time, alternating between ceremonial public office and private leisure.
He took public affairs so seriously that he lost his life at the hands of an authoritarian monarch: such complete devotion to the public weal had long since faded from aristocratic fashion. Boethius came to be suspected by his monarch of disloyal sympathies; the suspicion may indeed have been well-placed, but the sympathies may have been well-grounded.
He was accused of treason for defending the Roman Senate and put in prison in 523 by Theodoric's command.
The Consolation of Philosophy is apparently the fruit of Boethius's spell of imprisonment awaiting trial and execution.
Sometime c. 525/26 Boethius was executed. He was tortured for a very long time by a cord that was twisted round his forehead so that his eyes started from his head. Then at last amidst his torments he was killed with a club.
Seeing this reignited serious doubts I have about this place. Doubts that started with their "customer relations policy" a policy you only learn about reading the boards.
I'm confused.
I guess that makes sense.
In a twisted, wigglefree sort of way, as it were.