Monthly Archives: December 2011

Honorable deaths?

Posted on 31 December 2011 by

quodsi uiri sui faciem ignorat, deo profecto denupsit et deum nobis praegnatione ista gerit.  certe si diuini puelli (quod absit) haec mater audierit statim me laqueo nexili suspendam. If Psyche doesn’t know what her husband looks like, I’d bet she … Continue reading →

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BEAUTIFUL

Posted on 30 December 2011 by

DATA and CAST Allow me to vent! One night I was surfing the channels, as is sometimes my wont late in the day.  I caught Beautiful (2000) right after it had started, and stayed with it:  I like Minnie Driver!  … Continue reading →

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BOOK REVIEW Lying and Poetry from Homer to Pindar

Posted on 30 December 2011 by

Review of Louise H. Pratt Lying and Poetry from Homer to Pindar Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press (1993) pp. viii + 180 [Reprinted from Electronic Antiquity 1994 II 2  (August)] University of Tasmania, Australia This revised University of Michigan … Continue reading →

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SABRINA 1954

Posted on 29 December 2011 by

DATA and CAST A story that chronicles the transformation of the chauffeur’s daughter into the bride of the heir apparent in a fabulously wealthy family looks suspiciously like a fairy tale — especially so when she provides the opening voice-over:  … Continue reading →

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LANGUAGE OLIO 5: Words 1 – prosopagnosia phonagnosia

Posted on 29 December 2011 by

“Have We Met?  Tracing Face Blindness to Its Roots” The New York Times Tuesday 27 December 2011 p. D5 From time to time I’ll just do a brief little riff on a word or two, for reasons of general interest, … Continue reading →

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BOOK REVIEW Les substantifs masculins latins en … i(ō), … i(ō)nis

Posted on 29 December 2011 by

Review of Françoise Gaide Les substantifs masculins latins en … i(ō), … i(ō)nis. (Bibliothèque de l’Information grammaticale, 15.) Leuven :  Peeters, 1988. Pp. 373.  F250. First published in Language 66.2 (June 1990) :  414-415. [Republished here by permission of the editor of … Continue reading →

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INTERSECTION

Posted on 28 December 2011 by

DATA and CAST Intersection (1994) is about the intersection of lives at the three apices of the romantic triangle.  It’s romance that could have turned comedic but, in the end, turns tragic — in the limited modern sense of that … Continue reading →

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LANGUAGE OLIO 4: opus maximus

Posted on 28 December 2011 by

“Opus Maximus” ‘A comic master’s comic masterpiece turns 100’, Sara Lodge The Weekly Standard  26 December 2011 p. 39 Every good first-year Latin student knows that the title “Opus Maximus” is execrable Latin.  Every poor first-year Latin student congratulates herself … Continue reading →

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Can you afford not to study some classics?

Posted on 27 December 2011 by

ars adeo latet arte sua. miratur et haurit pectore Pygmalion simulati corporis ignes. So well does his skill hide his skill.  Pygmalion is amazed and in his heart he quaffs flames of love for the body he’s faked. Ovid Metamorphoses … Continue reading →

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LANGUAGE OLIO 3: our are

Posted on 26 December 2011 by

“’All the things they used to turn to our gone,’ said … a[n] … emergency services worker.” ‘Abuse victims in Joplin struggle to find housing’, Iowa City Press-Citizen  Friday 23 December 2011 In this article rightly deploring the lack of … Continue reading →

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