[econjack]

I did have to read Beowulf in high school and I don’t remember it now at all. I do remember disliking it at the time, but then, I didn’t like yogurt then, either.

[fredhead]

Beowulf....the only thing I remember is also in the song Hotel California.

“They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast.”

I do remember things from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (”The evil that men do lives after them - The good are oft interred with their bones”) and Macbeth. From Macbeth, the witches tell him early on “No man of woman born shall harm Macbeth” but at the end as he lay mortally wounded Macduff informs him “I was from my mother's womb untimely ripp’d” meaning he was brought into the world by Cesarean, not “born.”