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Carol is on page 167 of 304 of Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me

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Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.

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Carol is on page 136 of 355 of Revolutionary Road

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Carol is 75% done with Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature

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Beard…is a public figure who has used her training in a small subfield of ancient studies to acquire a soapbox as an oracular authority on all things… from Brexit to the global history of culture…. Each of these figures – Fry, Haynes and Beard – are like Hamilton in that they have gained popular success by fusing a schtick about classics with something much more nebulous and hard to achieve: a Personality.

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He had never seen such a stare of pitying boredom in her eyes.

It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford he used for a station car. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death.

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He looked at himself in the mirror, tightening his jaw and turning his head a little to one side to give it a leaner, more commanding look, the face he had given himself in mirrors since boyhood and which no photograph had ever quite achieved, until with a start he found that she was watching him.

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Anxious, round-eyed, …they looked and moved as if a calm and orderly escape from this place had become the one great necessity of their lives; as if, in fact, they wouldn’t be able to begin to live at all until they were out beyond the rumbling pink billows of exhaust and the crunching gravel of this parking lot, out where the black sky went up and up forever and there were hundreds of thousands of stars.

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Anachronism is fun, and Logue allows one to share his enjoyment in creating a collage made up of pieces from different eras. But it also serves the purpose of not allowing us to think of this story as a distant, musty old classic.

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.Other philosophical and religious traditions encourage their followers to aspire to an emptiness of the self, mirroring the emptiness of reality (in Sanskrit, sūnyatā) or the self-emptying of God (in Greek, kenōsis). In Stoicism, the self is always the focus, even for the most enlightened philosopher.

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The central distinction between what is and what is not ‘up to us’ (eph’hēmin) relies, in Epictetus’s work, on an individualistic idea of human motivations and values. What is ‘up to us’ tends to mean ‘what is up to me’. There is no possibility of collective action…. [A] revolutionary desire for political reform is not a feature of Epictetus’s version of Stoicism.

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Carol is 70% done with The Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy

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All anger – including righteous rage at collective injustice – is to be eradicated for the individual’s peace of mind. The followers of Epictetus are supposed to do what is ‘appropriate’ (kathēkon), and he does not worry about defining or reimagining what that might be. Convention and tradition are good enough guides.

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The modern term ‘ethics’ may be a little misleading as a descriptor of the ancient field: Stoic ethics was concerned not with establishing a rational basis for moral judgements, but with the way an individual – usually imagined as a male, relatively privileged individual – could attain the best possible life, through making himself immune to the vicissitudes of fortune.

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The Stoics taught that reason is the guiding force of the world, and ought to be the guiding principle of each human being. Thinking, and trying our best to discover the truth about the universe as well as about human life, is part of our duty as Stoics. Rather than shut our eyes to the truth, we must work to make it acceptable emotionally.

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But translation, perhaps especially the translation of poetry, is never really so simple. Meaning, form and language are intertwined. A poem belongs to the culture in which it was produced; sense is not separable from particular words, their rhythms, their connotations, their history.

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In the later decades of the twentieth century, for almost the first time in the Western tradition, most wealthy or middle-class people began to live without any domestic servants. These days, the enslaved and exploited people who provide our clothes, our entertainment, our food and our transportation usually live outside our homes, often half a world away.

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The Roman story of slavery is told from the perspective of the masters. Slavery made Roman cultural life possible, but Roman authors usually either ignored it, or made jokes about it, or turned it into grandiose philosophical metaphors about being ‘enslaved’ to false beliefs.

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It has been estimated that in the decades following the third and final Punic War, when Rome won its decisive victory over Carthage (146 bce), some 30 or 40 per cent of the population of Italy were slaves. Many slaves were literate, some of them very highly educated. Cicero’s beloved secretary, Tiro, inventor of the first known system of shorthand, is only the most famous example.

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Aristophanes is a vital poet to keep us laughing through the terrifying changes and equally terrifying stagnations of our own world. In our era of cruelty, partisanship and outrage, there is something both comforting and inspiring about the comic model of Aristophanes, with his willingness to poke fun at both hypocritical traditionalists and absurd revolutionaries.

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Comic satire is often ultimately on the side of the status quo. Lysistrata and Women of the Assembly may seem to propose a radical critique of the disenfranchisement of women in Athenian democracy. But both plays …reinforce the stereotypical view of Athenian men that women are primarily interested in sex and drinking….

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