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
4/28: rediscovering a poem
In graduate school I did my "special field" exam on the poets Propertius and Tibullus. I've had little occasion to return to either of them since then, but today I was paging through a Latin text and a poem by Propertius caught my eye. I had read all of his poems when preparing for my exam (14 years ago), but I didn't remember this one: a drunk Propertius is wandering through the streets of Rome at night when he is accosted by a mob of tiny Cupids. It's a really fun and funny poem, and I was so glad to find it today. (And how could I ever have forgotten it?)
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