Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
9/3: a favorite line
My advanced Latin class is reading Vergil's 4th Georgic, and today we reached a beautiful line in which Vergil describes some wool which the nymphs are carding as "dyed with the rich color of glass" (vellera...hyali saturo fucata colore). Most commentators explain that the glass in question must be sea-green since Vergil is talking about sea nymphs. Maybe. But I like to consider the possibility that Vergil is enjoying the paradox of something colored to be deeply transparent...!
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