Writing, thinking, and you

I guess by ‘you’ above I mean ‘me.’ I was reading Umberto Eco’s recent opinion piece (in which he responded to a recent report about handwriting among

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With the school year comes football season

And so I present to you (though you doubtless root for another team, like the Detroit Lions — or maybe not) the fight song of my hometown Philadelphi

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Lucan, Bellum civile 1.67-72

fert animus causas tantarum expromere rerum, inmensumque aperitur opus, quid in arma furentem inpulerit populum, quid pacem excusserit orbi. invida fa

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