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Category Archives: Latin
Mind With Mind.
21-Jun-15Almost There.
21-Jun-15buy provigil europe June 16th. On the plane. As we reached cruising speed, the flight attendants walked through the cabin spraying pesticides, to fumigate the cabin. My phone is off, and I neglected to purchase a watch, as I thought I might do before departure, so I have little idea of the time, but we are more than […]
In Dakar.
21-Jun-15June 16th. On the plane. Dawn in Dakar. We are sitting here on the tarmac, the dawn just a yellow line on the horizon. Insects of various sorts boarding the plane. We are in Africa. At dawn nearly 80 degrees, and tropical humidity breathing into the cabin.
D.C. to Dakar.
20-Jun-15June 15th. On the Airplane, D.C. to Dakar. Seated next to a gentleman by the name of Ed Yates, who is a most impressive big-game hunter. He is bringing some acquaintances on a hunting trip – he is familiar with the country, having owned land in South Africa and gone on numerous hunting trips here. […]
Isak Dinesen – or, Karen von Blixen.
20-Jun-15June 15th, Dulles Airport. Starting Out of Africa, which features the untranslated epigraph EQUITARE, ARCUM TENDERE, VERITATEM DICERE. I have to admit it’s hard not to love anyone who starts a book with those words. “To ride a horse, to shoot the bow, to speak the truth.” It’s from Herodotus, describing the Persians – he […]
At the Airport.
19-Jun-15June 15th. Dulles Airport. Now at the airport. Unable to get the internet working properly. Pondering possible Latin texts for our classes in South Africa – there exist many Latin accounts of the animals – certainly good material on elephants, lions, and giraffes, from Pliny to Linnaeus. There is much Latin writing about North Africa […]
In the National Gallery.
19-Jun-15June 15th. Dulles Airport. We had time today in the morning, before our evening flight, and so we drove into D.C. and visited the National Gallery. I had been there before, but I don’t know the museum well. In general, it aroused in me the same feelings that D.C. does: I am kind of impressed, […]
Prolegomenon: Latin In America.
19-Jun-15June 15th. Dulles Airport. We drove down to Washington D.C. after a funeral in New York. I had my usual repeated meals of pizza while in New York, attempting to stock up on calories. It might be a long time before I have my next good slice. In D.C. we stayed with Catherine’s aunt and […]
Latin in South Africa.
19-Jun-15June 14th, Washington D.C. Tomorrow Catherine and I depart for Africa for a most unusual reason: to teach Latin. Last year Marianne Dircksen, a professor in the school of ancient languages at Northwestern University in Potchefstroom, came to Rusticatio Virginiana in search of help. Latin, which had been part of the colonial educational system in […]
I think it was last year, at Rusticatio Virginiana, when I really felt that something was happening with the Classics. Something felt different: for so long, Classics had felt for me like a lone pursuit, and, fundamentally, a struggle: a struggle to learn, a struggle to teach, a struggle to find books and materials for, […]