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
7/21: beginning
...to write commentary on the uses of Classics in Phineas Finn. It took me 2.5 hours to write 6 glosses today. That's a bit daunting (given that there are about 170 glosses to write), but there was also an element of fun. For instance, I got to think about how Trollope was combining elements of an Aesopian fable and a Hans Christian Andersen story to set up some imagery that will connect with a poem by Juvenal later in the novel. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's mine.
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