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Friday, January 26, 2024

Some lesser works of Sōseki and Tanizaki - deep in the earth directly beneath Lady Kikyō’s toilet

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Dolce Bellezza is running her 17th Japanese Literature Challenge .  Amazing, well done, etc. I read some short works for it, which I will ...
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Sunday, January 21, 2024

Metamorphoses Cantos IV and V - gore, Pyramus and Thisbe, and a rap battle

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Bacchus continues his reign of terror in Canto IV of Metamorphoses by turning three sisters who refuse to believe in his divinity into what...
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Saturday, January 20, 2024

Ovid's Metamorphoses, Cantos II and III - or just III, it turns out - And Cole and Swift, and little Woolfe

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A month ago I wrote about the first Canto of Ovid’s Metamorphoses .  Now I will move through the Cantos two or three at a time, just leafin...
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Sunday, January 14, 2024

The Best Books of 2024

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For the last year and a half I read short books, mostly, which was psychologically satisfying and anyway necessary to fit the available ener...
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Thursday, January 4, 2024

The best books of 2023, in a sense - "Aren't you tired of reading?"

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Last January seems even more distant than usual at this time of year.  It will likely not surprise anyone that 2023 now comes with a strong ...
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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Books I read in December 2023 - No one’s worse than you, she says

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Lots of short fantasy fiction this month, perhaps everything in the first section except the May Sarton novel and Eugene O’Neill play, balan...
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Monday, December 18, 2023

Ovid's Metamorphoses, Canto I, "Of shapes transformde to bodies straunge"

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Some notes on Canto I of Ovid’s Metamorphosis (8 CE).  Just some of the things I am looking for or enjoying while reading Ovid’s epic of “f...
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Monday, December 4, 2023

Let's read Ovid's Metamorphoses! And perhaps more.

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Who would like to read Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 CE) with me?  We have had some discussion of this good idea, and I feel I am up to it now.  ...
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Friday, December 1, 2023

Books I read in November 2023

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Recovery from surgery leads to a long list of books. (Everything is going well, by the way, thanks).  My idea of a “comfort read” is a book ...
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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Books I Read in October 2023

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The five-day hospital stay breaking the month in half is likely invisible to anyone but me, but that is why the fiction list is so mystery-h...
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Saturday, October 14, 2023

My cancer - "It can’t be true! It can’t, but it is."

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  Liver cancer.   That was a surprise.   I knew something was wrong, but I was not expecting that. Since the diagnosis last summer, since ...
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Friday, October 13, 2023

But the Moon rescues others as they swim from below - a glance at the essays and dialogues of Plutarch

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The great ragged Greek philosophy readalong ends with Plutarch, famous for his extraordinary Parallel Lives but also the innovative author ...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Seneca and Marcus Aurelius and their Stoic self-help books - I shall not be afraid when my last hour comes

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The curious thing about Stoicism is its long-lasting survival in the self-help genre, curious at least until I read Seneca’s Letters from a ...
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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Lucretius brings to light in Latin verse the dark discoveries of the Greeks

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During the Hellenistic period, Epicureanism and Stoicism replaced Plato and Aristotle as the dominant philosophical movements (Plato would m...
Sunday, October 1, 2023

Books I Read in September 2023

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Despite all evidence I hope to wrap up the Greek philosophy project within the next couple of weeks.  A medical deadline approaches.  That w...
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Friday, September 8, 2023

Lucian's satires - Frankly he's a blamed nuisance

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The great 2nd century satirist Lucian was a great shock to me at one point, twenty-five years ago when I got serious about classical literat...
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