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"I sit in the cardboard Charybdis of a new home -- much to compose & more replace. In need of narrative and not, alas, the seams, I leave this impressive text for now. Once my rereading of the /Aeneid/ is over -- amid patches of Propertius, Procopius, & a text on the Crimean War, I will return." — Sep 19, 2016 09:27PM
"I sit in the cardboard Charybdis of a new home -- much to compose & more replace. In need of narrative and not, alas, the seams, I leave this impressive text for now. Once my rereading of the /Aeneid/ is over -- amid patches of Propertius, Procopius, & a text on the Crimean War, I will return." — Sep 19, 2016 09:27PM
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Running Notes:04/11/17
The "praefatio" is a curious development in Late Antique literature, but I am far too inexperienced in these post-Flavian centuries to suss the source, the germ. Claudian uses prefaces some 150 years prior to Corippus. In an epi ...more "
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"I am finding Newman rather impossible -- purposefully without wrinkles (save those he claims to have despite all evidence), restrained, antiseptic. I am not only unconvinced but peeved -- I shelved Flaubert for this. At least those around him, notably Mrs. Tristram, aren't buying it either, so perhaps I'm in the right company." — Aug 04, 2018 10:53AM
"I am finding Newman rather impossible -- purposefully without wrinkles (save those he claims to have despite all evidence), restrained, antiseptic. I am not only unconvinced but peeved -- I shelved Flaubert for this. At least those around him, notably Mrs. Tristram, aren't buying it either, so perhaps I'm in the right company." — Aug 04, 2018 10:53AM
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