some auden i’ve been reading w.h. auden’s essay ‘criticism in a mass society’ (in the 1941 collection The Intent of the Critic), and thought the following passag Continue Reading →
the funniest thing i heard on the radio this morning… went something like this: Imagine a gathering of Mozart, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Jefferson, and Madame Curie. That’s what it was like yest Continue Reading →
whee! i have found my new favorite type of greek genitive, courtesy of m.l. west. it is in hesiod, theogony 5-6. καί τε λοεσσάμεναι τέρε Continue Reading →