Is authentic tragedy, as George Steiner has argued, dead in the modern world? Do we overuse the word, attaching it to routine or random bad events, etc?
Scathing Online Schoolmarm says: Say what you will about the fate of the tragic in our time — When you happen on a headline that truly does describe, with chilling concision, a tragedy, you’re called upon to take note.
From today’s LA Times:
PRICELESS CORVETTES SWALLOWED BY
MASSIVE SINKHOLE AT KENTUCKY MUSEUM
Euripides! Thou should’st be living at this hour.
February 12th, 2014 at 3:47PM
An oracle told them that they would each die a horrid auto’s death in a pothole. They were attempting, hiding out inertly in an obscure museum, to avoid road hazards.
February 12th, 2014 at 4:31PM
Greg: This is known as ‘tragic carmartia.’
February 12th, 2014 at 5:19PM
Applaud your Aeschyluation.
February 12th, 2014 at 9:06PM
Greg….outstanding!