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
11/6: enjoying apuleius
It was a pleasure to prepare today's translation passage for the Apuleius class. We were reading an excerpt from the tale of Cupid and Psyche in which Psyche is tasked by Venus, her angry mother-in-law, with sorting piles of mixed-up beans, grains, and seeds. The ants muster to help her! The language of the passage echoes moments in ancient epic, while the scenario looks forward to European fairy-tales--and all of it is funny and smart. Oh thank goodness I chose Apuleius for one of my courses this semester!
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