Nero's Fiddle
wildfire thoughts I should've kept in my journal
Plantagenet, I will; and like thee, Nero,
Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI
I mull over the phrase “Nero fiddled while Rome burned” since I first heard a reference to it during Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s musical episode in a number performed excellently by Hinton Battle and his Cab Calloway hips.1 The term comes from …
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