Call Me Cassandro

The narrator of Moby Dick begins the story with "Call me Ishmael" and carries on for about 1000 pages of typical New England fiction. Now, Cassandra was the Trojan prophetess who thought it would be a great idea to incinerate the Trojan Horse, which she dreamed presciently would emit bloodthirsty Greeks to slaughter the people. However, she did not convince the citizenry, who thought the Greeks had brought a nice "no hard feelings" gift.

The reason for the revised opinion of the Blog title is to express the instinctive Norwegian pessimism of the writer. He is a male, hence the masculine formulation. He grew up precisely halfway from the equator to the north pole. He had doubts about the prophecy of the ground hog regarding "only" six weeks more of winter; in a leap year, that would land one right on the Ides of March. Yours truly often wished the woodchuck and chucked a couple of weeks more of wood so as to emerge into somewhat balmyer temperatures.