“ . . . [W]e continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more ‘drive,’ or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or ‘creativity.’ In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. […]
I am reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses all the way through, beginning to end, for the first time this summer. I have read bits and pieces, and I have looked up certain stories or references in order to become familiar with them, but I’ve never read the whole thing. Being the extrovert that I am, I didn’t
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That’s it, people. It is summer. Finally. We are done with the school year! Facebook is full of last day of school pics and videos of kids jumping into the pool for the first time this season. Grills have had the spring pollen dusted off and are being put to perpetual use. Burgers, chlorine, cut
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If you haven’t argued with Andrew Kern over an ancient epic, then I’m sorry to say you haven’t lived. I managed to get into it with him over The Aeneid at a recent CiRCE Apprenticeship retreat. I had taken the stance that Dido and Aeneas were married (an opinion Andrew does not share), and I
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