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Fred’s 2025 Year in Books
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Fred W. Jenkins
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Classical Studies: A Guide to the Reference Literature
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Ammianus Marcellinus: An Annotated Bibliography, 1474 to the Present
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"Balzac really takes a subject and drills down into it. This should have been fascinating. I suspect the problem was my absent brain. Explorations of religion, mysticism, sciences, and medicine. What makes a human life a happy one? Can any of the syst"
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| Journeys of the Mind is a memoir, and it is very much an intellectual autobiography. Not so much standard biography. Brown covers his family history, growing up as a Protestant in Ireland (and the Sudan, where his father was a railway engineer), his ...more | |
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| Austin's commentary on Aeneid I is part of the old Oxford Red series of Greek and Latin texts, aimed at sixth formers and undergraduates of yore. Not overly much literary comment, lots of parallels, discussions of textual and lexical difficulties, lo ...more | |
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Pavese offers his reflections on the Greek myths through a series of dialogues between mythic figures. Two of his primary themes are death and memory. When Pavese killed himself, he left a copy of this book on the night-stand in his hotel room. He su ...more |
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“Lesen, viel lesen, sehr viel lesen, möglichst viel lesen.”
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“Non minima pars eruditionis est bonos nosse libros”
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“ad Graecas literas totum animum applicui; statimque ut pecuniam accepero, Graecos primum autores, deinde vestes emam”
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“Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.”
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“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experientially and experimentally. When the limits are determined, it is found that they are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind, there are no limits. The body imposes definite limits.”
― The Deep Self: Consciousness Exploration in the Isolation Tank
― The Deep Self: Consciousness Exploration in the Isolation Tank
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With PMs being no longer available, I hope this group will help us with keeping in touch.
You are welcome.