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
2/5: smoother Latin
Last week our passages in Ovid's Metamorphoses had some highly wrought sections. On Friday we had a really good conversation about what the highly wrought stylization could be doing, but understanding and even appreciating the workings of the difficulties doesn't make them less difficult to translate. Today's passage, by contrast, was much clearer sailing, and I think we were all glad for a breather.
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