I have no trouble finding a conversation about Ursula LeGuin's comment on Virgil understanding women which segues quickly into whether or not Virgil really does *characters* at all, as compared particularly to Homer. And I can talk about this to other people who will be interested and have different perspectives! One of whom is writing a paper ( Read more... )

Some day, since nobody else seems to be going to do so, I am going to write a book. A nonfiction book. And this book will be about fandom. It will be about the history of (Western) fandom, how it goes back much farther than we in the modern day think--since, after all, who owns Hercules? Where would Virgil be without Homer? Does Ovid have a ( Read more... )

Dear Mr EGBERT J. BAKKERFirst of all, I am extremely sorry. I didn't know there were still parents in this modern day and age so cruel as to saddle their children with such a name. But look on the bright side: your middle initial places you in such august company as Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket J. Squirrel ( Read more... )

Some days, anyway. Some days it's exactly as bad as I made it out to be ( Read more... )

I am somewhat desensitized by the last year and a half of elections. Also, I mailed my absentee ballot in last Friday, so I don't have to find time in my schedule to go vote ( Read more... )

Why college is awesome: today I got to go listen to a classics BNF (specializing in Virgil) give a talk about his analysis of the Aeneid as related to the early Augustan Age, and what Virgil was saying about both--was he using Aeneas purely to show the good bits, or to highlight the bad? It was most excellent. He was a very interesting speaker, and ( Read more... )

Haha, I finished my Latin summer work! 37 lines of Ovid in an hour; I rule. At life, the universe, and geeking. And I only looked in my English copy for a hint once ( Read more... )

Gods and little fishes, I am tired. All day, and some of yesterday, I've been in that state where you see your hands moving and don't associate them with yourself. I feel very detached, like I'm not connected to my body. I'm watching my hands type this, click-click-click, and I still don't feel that the words are written by me, that the hands are ( Read more... )

We had a brief meeting at the library today to prep. Two favorite quotes, from the mythology quizzing portion ( Read more... )