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
2/17: thinking about penelope
It's the spring semester, which means I'm teaching my Myth course, which means I'm teaching the Odyssey. It's both a pleasure and a challenge to find new things to say about the text each year. Today I spent time working out some thoughts about Penelope in books 17-19, and I felt like I got somewhere with my ideas. Which is always gratifying, but in this case it's also an indication of how much this particular poem has to offer: there's always more to discover.
... my morning beautiful would be seeing snow flakes dance in the air when I looked away from the computer...
ReplyDeleteIt's nice when there's a little reward for looking up or away from the screen. Just think: if you hadn't looked out the window, the flakes would have been there and you would have missed them. I'm glad you got to see them instead....
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