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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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Reviewing or rating the GNT seems somewhat impertinent. I have been reading/rereading parts of the GNT since graduate school over three decades ago (3rd ed then, 4th now because I haven't got around to buying the 5th), so it may live in currently rea
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I haven't seen that film version, but highly recommend the 1969 one with Peter O'Toole (and a screenplay by Terrence Rattigan). The book is pretty goo
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| The life of the writer as told by les chats; or is it the other way around? We are introduced to the four chartreux cats of the house: Kirin, Petrus, Ocha, and Mizu. Kirin is our narrator, who fills us in on the foibles of his siblings and also those ...more | |
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My favorite excuse is stolen on a train (TE Lawrence and Arnold Gomme)
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A friend of mine (a Roman historian who spent a few years in Saudi, while her husband worked for Aramco) describes this as both her favorite work of f
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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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