Male Graduate Students:
un-serious in terms of studies since 1931.
I hope our loyal fans appreciate the new look of the blog. It took me like 15 minutes of hard work.
(And be sure to check the link up there on the post title if you didn't get the brilliant joke therein contained.)
Father Homer, thee,
Thee also I forgive thy sandy wastes
Of prose and catalogue, thy drear harangues
That tease the patience of the centuries,
Thy sleazy scrap of story,--but a rogue's
Rape of a light-o'-love,--too soiled a patch
To broider with the gods.
Thee, Socrates,
Thou dear and very strong one, I forgive
Thy year-worn cloak, thine iron stringencies
That were but dandy upside-down, they words
Of truth that, mildlier spoke had mainlier wrought.
--Sidney Lanier, from 'The Crystal'
Back on the campus again (as well as the Campus, which I guess is pretty obvious) to take care of a few chores and find out why my final paper was "both stimulating and infuriating."
Wasting time between chores I stumbled upon the following from a review of Perseus written by the Rip:
"Perseus offers two features not otherwise available: a database of Greek texts in English; a morphological analysis program. For either of these to be research tools, we must imagine scholars not able to read Greek, a prospect that turns my heart to stone."
Which supports my decision to spend much of the summer on Hesiod and Thucydides. Wish me luck.
I'm crashing at my parents' house untill I find a place to live and I've finally got my desktop PC back on the internet after nearly a year. I've been struggling to get the thing updated, with no luck. But I didn't happen to stumble onto this beaut on some web page's Word of the Day feature and thought I'd share:
CONVOLUTED
Definition:
intricate and complicated
Example:
Although many people bought A Brief History of Time, few could follow its CONVOLUTED ideas and theories.
Synonyms:
snaky, tortuous
