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source: mastodon
date: 2023-03-19 02:42:59.52 +00
title: "Mastodon post from March 19, 2023, 110047643534173076"
post_uri: https://mastodon.social/users/gravely/statuses/110047643534173076
post_id: 110047643534173076
tags:
  - mastodon
---
huh, never heard of a "clarihew" ( [https://archive.org/details/biography00chesuoft/page/10](https://archive.org/details/biography00chesuoft/page/10)) poem before: a sort of shitty limerick about a historical figure. Cute. Named after the author of a book of them.

Terrible. 😂


![a scan of a page the original book from the internet archiveMIGUEL DE CERVANTESThe people of Spain think CervantesEqual to half a dozen Dantes:An opinion resented most bitterly By the people of Italy.](./110047643159796484.jpeg)

![opposing page, with illustration that looks like a woodcut print or pen drawing of a stack of dantes glaring at a smug cervantes](./110047643265610976.jpeg)