Beware the Ides of March. Um, OK.

Wanna hear something kinda creepy? I've been reading this book by Matt Ruff called Fool On The Hill for awhile now and I just finished it this morning. The book is like a pleasant windy dream and I recommend it to anyone who has a taste for fantasy mixing in with the real world. That's not the creepy part. The creepy part is that the final section of the book (Part IV) is called "The Ides of March". Hot dog! Guess what today is?

If you haven't clicked on the link for The Ides of March above, let me briefly explain to you that today, March 15th, was the day when Julius Caeser was assasinated in 44 B.C. Huh, that was pretty brief. Click on a link for more.

Actually, "creepy" was a bad word choice. I should have said "cosmic". I had read Fool before, but forgot that it ended on The Ides of March. As I was reading, I had also forgot that today was the very day that the story came to a climax. Fantasy and reality intertwined yet again. Creepy... I mean, cosmic. Yah!

Hail Caeser! - I somehow managed to get through this whole post without mentioning Shakespeare! Well... until now anyway. Shakespeare's play, Julius Caeser, details the conspiracy and murder of the Roman dictator. Interested? You can read the play here.