Reading and writing through time and space.
"Friends, Romans, countrymen! Lend me your ears!" Happy Monday, all. How are you on this bright September morning? It's fall, and I could not be happier about it. School is back in session, and it's almost time to break out the sweaters. I have been seeing this lovely mid-year book tag going around and while … Continue reading The (Kind of Late) Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag
"Death is the mother of beauty," said Henry."And what is beauty?""Terror.""Well said," said Julian. "Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming."I looked at Camilla, her face bright in the sun, and thought of line from the Iliad I love so much, about Pallas Athene and the terrible … Continue reading Why I Loved The Secret History and the Invasion of Academic Aesthetics