Recent Aquisitions
All of Matt’s recent new acquisitions have been making me jealous and because of that a trip to Half Price …
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Excavation is Necessary
I am happy to say I got to read a little Proust last. Of course, between comforting the dog when …
The Odyssey Begins
Well, Proust did not get attended to last night. There was much kitten brawling and doggie worriedness too attend to. …
Picking Up the Languishing
My maternity leave with the kittens ended when I returned to work yesterday. It seems so long ago and far …
Herodotus in Egypt
I am doing no traveling this summer but that doesn’t mean I am not traveling. There is no better (and …
Poetry and Imagination
I thought I would read the whole of Poetry and Imagination but that was before I had the book it …
Turtles
Turtles. I love them. Always have. When I was a kid my aunt had box turtles and a desert tortoise …
A Poem of Resistance
Yesterday I talked about Simone Weil’s essay “The Iliad, or the Poem of Force” It appears in War and the …
A Poem of Force
I finished War and the Iliad today and my first reaction: Wow. The book is composed of three essays plus …
Afternoon Reading
Another five a.m. morning today and my tired brain didn’t quite make it through War and the Iliad. I did …
