In 1995, while in Angola, I read "The Odyssey". I should of course have read it much younger, but there you go. In 2026, in butt-fuck nowhere England I read "The Wind in the Willows." I should, of course... Both are a delight, and deserve re-reading annually, I think. Anyway, the final chapter of TWitW... Continue Reading →
So many other reasons among the 8646 others. Here's another. The people who study, and who think about why social movements haven't done a better job on climate change are - how to put this - blind to the some of the reasons why social movements haven't done a better job on climate change. This... Continue Reading →
The Sacrifice of Polyxena, 1647, by Charles Le Brun, Metropolitan Museum of Art What this project is about. This one is from Book 13. How long it took to read this (aloud): 3 mins 54s What it’s “about”: It ends badly twice - first for one of Priam’s sons, then for a brave young lady.... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 13. How long it took to read this (aloud): 2 mins 40s What it’s “about”: What it said on the tin. No horses though. Words I didn’t know: none Quotable quotes: Troy burned, nor had its fires guttered out, While Jove's shrine drank, a single... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 13. How long it took to read this (aloud):33 mins 16 seconds (the longest section of the whole thing, longer than Phaethon's Ride and Nestor's Tale of the Centaurs). What it’s “about”: The Greeks argue over who should get Achilles’ armour. Ajax says he should... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 12. How long it took to read this (aloud): 4 mins 12s What it’s “about”: Achilles makes some powerful enemies (Neptune and Apollo combined) Words I didn’t know: None Quotable quotes: Nor had his hatred of Achilles dwindled; And as the days went on, it... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 12. How long it took to read this (aloud): 26mins 32s What it’s “about”: a very very bloody and graphic Centaur versus humans fight (which the centaurs started) at a wedding. Grim stuff. Words I didn’t know: None Quotable quotes: Gruesome shit. Only gruesome shit.... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 12. How long it took to read this (aloud): 4 mins 18s What it’s “about”: They sit around bullshitting after the battle.Nestor tells them of a beautiful young woman, Caenis who is minding her own business when Nepture rapes her. She asks to be turned... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 12. How long it took to read this (aloud): 10 mins 39s What it’s “about”: The clue is in the title Words I didn’t know: xx Quotable quotes: There, where the altar fires flashed through darkness They saw a blue-green dragon climb a tree, Whose... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 11. Aesacus and Hesperia, engraving by Johann Ulrich Krauss for a 1690 edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 771–776. How long it took to read this (aloud): 3 mins 28s What it’s “about”: More goddam rape. This time the rapist takes responsibility for his crime... Continue Reading →
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