“Men must be
noble as well as righteous. There is an
aspiration to fulfill the possibilities inherent in being human, despite the
loss of intimacy with the gods. The way
back was to aspire to greatness, the reward for which was immortality in the Blessed
Isles, where sorrow had no place.”
Richard G. Geldard, The Travelers Guide to
Ancient Greece
·
First,
to close the door on some of my old routine.
Atop my bed stand perches a dozen books neither better than “The Iliad” nor better than my textbook for H24H. (Don’t let
Prof. Nagy know, but I read only that the last couple of chapters. By the way;
ridiculously good price for a textbook. ) None of those dozen’s authors or the hundreds
before, offered interpretations that made so much sense to me as Nagy’s
do. Time to concentrate my reading on
what’s important.
·
Second
over time, my treasury of tidbits grows; 737 tweets, the eighty-five pages of
the unfinished “To Limn the Sacred” and
all of those notes for the book. Time to
do something with all them.
This vacation opens the door on a great new journey for me.
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