Dark news of Thebes

As we left we walked by the DJ booth. No one seemed to care. He could have played anything, really. And I lamented the loss of DJ culture. The boys today seem more concerned with a hit parade than with a journey.  Pretty boys care more about each other than music these days. And the DJ as an artist is a dying breed.

Pentheus 

          This Bacchic arrogance advances on us like

          A spreading fire, disgracing us before all 

          Hellas...

Dionysus 

          I would control my rage and sacrifice to him

          if I were you, rather than kick against the 

          goad.

Herdsman

          And with their motion all things moved.

Euripides, The Bacchae

Translation, Philip Vellacott

Penguin Classics, 1954


Can the lamentations of the Chef be far behind?