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Aeschylus | Sophocles | Euripides | Aristophanes (Great Books of the Western World, #5)

by Aeschylus

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Aug 10, 2021 05:40AM

“I scrubbed in the water while Ellie Mae chased a jackrabbit that was wandering on the shore. She nearly caught the rabbit, but the rabbit called for reinforcements. Soon nearly eighty rabbits emerged from the brush and began chasing my dog across the Texas plains. These were not rabbits like we have in Florida. Some of these were carrying tomahawks, and a few were on horseback.”
― Sean Dietrich , Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay

tags: dogs, rabbits, texas

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“November. It was already getting cold in the Panhandle. I'm talking bone cold. Temperatures were sinking all the way to sixty-two degrees in some places.”
― Sean Dietrich, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay

tags: cold, florida, panhandle, temperature

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“Mary Jo Godwin, former editor of the late Wilson Library Bulletin, once wrote: "A truly great library has something in it to offend everyone." But libraries don't buy books in order to offend. We buy them to support our community. It surprises some people that not everyone wants the same thing.”
― James LaRue, On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US

tags: censorship, libraries

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“At sundown, our world comes alive, all nature feeds upon itself. The algae gets eaten by the mullet, the mullet get eaten by the redfish, the redfish get eaten by the pelicans, the pelicans get eaten by the chipmunks. No, I'm only kidding; I don't know what eats the pelicans.”
― Sean Dietrich, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay

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“Until lately the West has regarded it as self-evident that the road to education lay through great books. No man was educated unless he was acquainted with the masterpieces of his tradition. There never was very much doubt in anybody’s mind about which the masterpieces were. They were the books that had endured and that the common voice of mankind called the finest creations, in writing, of the Western mind.”
― Robert Maynard Hutchins, The Great Conversation: The Substance Of A Liberal Education

tags: books, education, masterpieces

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