I first encountered the line "If you're squeamish, don't prod the beach rubble" in the game Sam and Max Hit The Road and thought of it as a classic Sam and Max line for years until I discovered it was actually written by Sappho of Lesbos, circa 570 BCE.
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in reply to @pervocracy's post:
I went to fact check this, and the short answer is it's true, and the long answer is that translators have embellished a very short fragment quite a bit and I am starting to have OPINIONS about it
okay another translation says "stir not the pebbles," which is more poetic but less immediately relatable
