Tuesday, January 27, 2015

A Greek & Roman Comedy, If It Wasn't So "Historically" Pathetic

A little bit of slush outside GCT after #Juno #Blizzardof2015 was done with NYC. Photo NYTimes Hubris: In the modern sense based on Greek tragedy means extreme pride or self-confidence. When it offends the gods, it is usually punished. The Roman goddess Juno: wife of the chief god Jupiter, was...
              

Saturday, January 24, 2015

The Extreme Intimacy of Penmanship: National Handwriting Day

Dad's handwriting Yesterday was National Handwriting Day.  How did I not know this? I love everything about it.It was declared waaay back in 1977 by WIMA, the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association, to "celebrate the lost art of penmanship."  So it has nothing to do with...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

James Joyce's "The Dead": a.k.a Have Yourself a Merry "Little Christmas"

"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." * * * * * * For many, the Day of "The Dead" is el Dia de los Muertos. For me, it’s January 6. Little Christmas. Twelfth...
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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Evelyn Waugh's Epiphany & "Ellen's Invention"

I first wrote about Evelyn Waugh's 1950 novel Helena for Epiphany several years ago, before I had read it, because I knew its famous passage about the feast—pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate—through sermons.  And I knew the novel was historical fiction about he journey...
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