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The value of Greek prose composition, he said, was [...] that if done properly, off the top of one's head, it taught one to think in Greek. One's thought patterns become different, he said, when forced into the confines of a rigid and unfamiliar tongue. Certain common ideas become inexpressible; other, previously undreamt-of ones spring to life, finding miraculous new articulation.
— Apr 18, 2023 10:45AM
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They, too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape, centuries dead; they'd had the same experience of looking up from books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home. It was why I admired Julian, and Henry in particular. Their reason, their very eyes and ears were fixed irrevocably in the confines of those stern and ancient rhythms.
— Jan 30, 2022 12:49AM
