What this project is about. This one is from Book 4. How long it took to read this (aloud): 1 mins 46s What it’s “about”: Adulterers are caught in a net… Words I didn’t know: xx Quotable quotes: Then Vulcan's mind went dark; he dropped his work And turned at once to subtle craftsmanship, To... Continue Reading →
So, I am reading - a decade a day - the late great Tony Husband’s book The 20th Century in Cartoons” (to be clear, he selected them, he didn’t draw them.) See also The Onion’s Our Dumb Century. This decade, in my mind is one of…the good times not rolling, having malaria etc. What I... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 4. How long it took to read this (aloud): 11 mins 19 secs What it’s “about”: young lurv thwarted by Bad Luck (and the fates?) Words I didn’t know: thyrsus - In Ancient Greece a thyrsus (/ˈθɜːrsəs/) or thyrsos (/ˈθɜːrsɒs/; Ancient Greek: θύρσος) was a... Continue Reading →
So, I am reading - a decade a day - the late great Tony Husband’s book The 20th Century in Cartoons” (to be clear, he selected them, he didn’t draw them.) See also The Onion’s Our Dumb Century. This decade, in my mind is one of… “AIDS, crack, homeless vets” What I didn’t know: I... Continue Reading →
So, I am reading - a decade a day - the late great Tony Husband’s book The 20th Century in Cartoons” (to be clear, he selected them, he didn’t draw them.) See also The Onion’s Our Dumb Century. This decade, in my mind is one of…the American empire getting a bloody nose, stagflation etc. NB... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 3. How long it took to read this (aloud): 14 mins 25s What it’s “about”: Tiresias tells Pentheus how it is going to play out (gory) and so it does (gory). Some sailors get turned into various kinds of sea life. Gory. Words I didn’t... Continue Reading →
So, I am reading - a decade a day - the late great Tony Husband’s book The 20th Century in Cartoons” (to be clear, he selected them, he didn’t draw them.) See also The Onion’s Our Dumb Century. This decade, in my mind is one of…sex drugs, state repression What I didn’t know: xxx Rembrandt‘s... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 3. Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age. The introduction of the mountain nymph, Echo, into the story of Narcissus, the beautiful youth who rejected Echo and fell in love with his own reflection, appears... Continue Reading →
So, I am reading - a decade a day - the late great Tony Husband’s book The 20th Century in Cartoons” (to be clear, he selected them, he didn’t draw them.) See also The Onion’s Our Dumb Century. This decade, in my mind is one of…enforced conformity (destruction of civil society) and the threat of... Continue Reading →
I am doing remedial accumulation of cultural capital - (having done Bill Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes and the New Testament I've moved on to other fiction - Ovid's Metamorphoses. Mostly this stuff goes in one eye and out the other, because you don't use it so much in Day to Day life. Occasionally though, it's sooo... Continue Reading →
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