raise high the roofbeams carpenters [ or workmen]

 raise high the roofbeams carpenters [ or workmen]

fiction

edward w pritchard

What was Sappho trying to say when she wrote [ raise high the roofbeams carpenters] . I don't know and Boo Boo at the wedding never explained it to me. Boo Boo Glass is [ JD Salinger's very minor female character]. Boo Boo references Sappho in a work of fiction. 

I  enjoy Sappho's poetry even if it's possible that a mere woman wasn't capable of such beautiful lyrics and it is unknown but possible that Alexander Pope didn't secretly write some of Sappho's  poems. But that would be an anachronism beyond a man's understanding. 

Some folks like to do home improvements and some men like to view all girl movies with occasional references to Sappho or Shakespeare to side step the supreme court case " memoirs of a woman of pleasure" v Massachusetts  I suppose. Obscenity is in the eye of the beholder perhaps. 

Live and let live. I like Author Miller's character, Charley's speech at Willie's demise after the main character Willie Loman passed where Charlie says  in "death of a salesman"... Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman there is no rock bottom to life. 

I was a salesman once. Nasty business. Hard to have faith in the future and all. Hard to do home improvements. All I can say is why did Sappho have to die and why can't we just live on and on or at least live on in our writings. Sappho was a great poet. I'll look her up in the by and by if it's not an imaginary place. Like Boo Boo is an imaginary character who gets all the references and nuances just right, like Alexander Pope, the diminutive hunchback.