Transitional Phrase

Here's something uninteresting. Yesterday, having mentioned Patrick Swayze on the "blog" for no reason, I included a "hyperlink" upon which naught shall "click" to the previous time I mentioned Patrick Swayze (also for no reason): September 13, 2008. I say for no reason, but the reason, if you want to call it that, all those years ago (I'm too tired to do the math), was an allusion to a former (?) habit of Kent Osborne, who would use, in conversation, Swayze's name as part of a transitional phrase. To liven things up and make them jolly! Oh, what times those were. Speaking of which, you know how I am always talking about these times we live in and how they suck and whatnot without bothering to get into details because who wants to rock the boat? Nothing to see here! So! Now we're getting to the meat of it! I hope you're hungry! In the Swayze "link" mentioned above, I discovered a few lines from John Ashbery I had quite forgotten, which read, in part (I'll give you a second chance not to "click"), "these are lousy times to be living in, yet we do live in them: We are the case." Well! I guess you can take that in a couple of ways (we DO live in them!!!), but it reminded me of Emily Wilson (also appearing in yesterday's "post") - specifically, her translation of Seneca's OEDIPUS, in which our hero (?) says "The guilt of my times is mine." I just wanted to make you feel better!