Tuesday, April 06, 2010

This is what happens when too many years of education (and too many random facts rattling around in the head) meet up with a (probably overused) meme:

(This picture was the closest I could find to a true facepalm. I was really hoping there was either a painting or a statue of him with that "tortured artistic soul" hand-to-brow gesture that could be interpreted as a facepalm, but no dice, at least in my searches. And yes, he really did write that quotation, it's from "Maid of Orleans," which I've never read, but which the Internet tells me is about Joan of Arc.)

1 comment:

CGHill said...

Isaac Asimov titled one of his novels The Gods Themselves, referencing Schiller.