Me before you goodreads11/9/2023 They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose. You can begin to see why the topics are not coming as easily these days.From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. *After writing this post, it occurred to me that I did write about Mike the Headless Chicken once, back in June of 2016. But I would bet that the time I spend writing blog posts about chickens is above average. I don’t know that I would say I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the Roman Empire, at least not as much as many of the men in my life apparently do. If you spend much time thinking about the Roman Empire, they’re bound to come up eventually. It turns out that thinking about the chickens may be a worthwhile endeavor after all. He then went on to suffer the greatest naval defeat of the war and returned to Rome in shame. He allegedly responded to the chicken priest’s report that if the chickens didn’t want to eat, perhaps they could drink, and he ordered them all thrown overboard. On this particular day, the chickens did not prove hungry, but Pulcher was not going to be told what to do by a bunch of bird-brained soothsayers. Image by Emilian Robert Vicol from Pixabay It seems reasonable to assume that if these creatures don’t feel like eating, it might be an ominous sign. If not, then perhaps Pulcher would have been better off planning his attack for another day. If the chickens decided to eat, that would have been a sign of good luck. He asked his friendly neighborhood pullarius (Latin for chicken priest, just in case that ever comes up in conversation), who offered feed to the chickens and waited to see what would happen. As one evidently does while in Rome, he consulted the sacred chickens. The story goes that during the First Punic War between Rome and Carthage, Roman consul and naval commander Publius Claudius Pulcher decided to attack the Carthaginian fleet at in the harbor of Drepana off the western coast of Sicily. Rightly so, because there was at least one incidence when their advice was not taken and disastrous results followed. I’m a little late to the game because I don’t spend a great deal of time on either Instagram or Tik-Tok, but still several of the men in my life have played along and posted more than once that they are thinking about the Roman Empire again, which in turn makes me think about chickens.īecause chickens were pretty important to the Roman Empire, particularly the sacred chickens from the Greek Island of Euboea, whose opinions on foreign policy held great sway. An oddly large percentage of men responded that they do think about the Roman Empire fairly often. It started as an Instagram post turned Tik-Tok trend with a couple of Swedish influencers challenging women to ask the men in their lives how often they think about the Roman Empire. That is until we all started thinking about the Roman Empire so much.Īctually, maybe you haven’t been thinking about the Roman Empire all that much lately. I just never realized they held much of a significant role in history. It’s not that chickens aren’t fascinating creatures. Oh, maybe this is why all of the men are thinking about the Roman Empire! Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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