At a shop earlier, toddler in cart in front of me having a meltdown.  Exasperated mother finally says "Atticus, will you please quit crying ( Read more... )

I've been reading an interesting book on how various plants were first introduced to North America and how they became established, hybridized, etc. over time.  Under the entry on weeping willows I was enchanted to find the first were brought to the US by an admirer of Alexander Pope, an Anglican clergyman, philosopher and author named Samuel ( Read more... )

I must find myself a good Leslie Howard icon - I'll have to settle for James Stewart for now.  (at least at DWth...here at LJ I'll have to go with the "other Pimpernel ( Read more... )

I noted the 100+ title "what books have you read" meme going by and wondered if I might find somewhere a comparable sort of list to use that focused instead on titles considered a part of being classically educated or similar. Here's a compilation of gleanings from three such lists.

As is commonly done with such things, I've put the ones I've read ( Read more... )

Just finished reading the Letters of Cicero (excerpts, that is - not the whole bazillion of them) and then Octavius went and totally betrayed him and let Antony kill him! Aaaaaaighh! Noooo! Noooo!

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It's worse because it isn't even a fictional hero dying...! even if it *was* a loooong time ago. That's the thing about history, sometimes the ( Read more... )

It's been much too long since I managed to post on LJ, yikes, though I do get by to lurk at least somewhat, enjoying seeing what everyone is up to. Almost the end of another year ( Read more... )

This came up as a side-thought to a thread on the Pony - it being a bit of revisionist history that sets my teeth on edge whenever it hoves by, I thought I might get it out of my system by offering a brief historical account here.

( The Myth of Galileo )