*SELF-HELP FROM OTHERS: * You say I need a jobI got my own businessYou wanna know what I do?None of your fucking business!Fugazi- "Repeater" Everything I like to do is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.Alexander Woolcott You can only be young oncebut you can always be immature.Dave Barry It is convenientthat there should be gods,so let us believe that there are!Ovid The colon has more effect than the comma,less power to separate than the semicolon,and more formality than the dash.Strunk and WhiteThe Elements of Style *BOOKS CURRENTLY READING: * The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeatsby W. B. Yeats [1996] Engineering in the Ancient World:Revised Editionby J. G. Landels [2000] The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetryby James W. Halporn [1994] European LiteratureAnd the Latin Middle Agesby Ernst Robert Curtius [1973] The Jugurthine War andThe Conspiracy of Catilineby Sallust [1963 translation] Introduction to Manuscript Studiesby Raymond Clemens [2007] Anthology of European Romantic Poetryby Michael Ferber [2005] *BOOKS COMPLETED: * summer 2005 The Aeneidby Vergil [trans. 1981] Romaji Diary and Sad Toysby Takuboku Ishikawa [1909 & 1912] Greece in the Making: 1200-429 BCby Robin Osborne [1996] Spectacles of Death in Ancient Romeby Donald G. Kyle [1998] Roman Aqueducts and Water Supplyby A. Trevor Hodge [1992] fall 2005 What's The Matter With Kansas?by Thomas Frank [2004] Maus IIby Art Spiegelman [1986] Sapphics Against Angerby Timothy Steele [1986] The Diamond Ageor A Young Lady's Illustrated Primerby Neal Stephenson [1995] The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon [abrdg. 1987] spring 2006 Law, Sexuality, and Society:The Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athensby David Cohen [1991] Kosmos: Essays in Order,Conflict and Community in Classical Athensedited by Paul Cartledge, Paul Millettand Sitta von Reden [1998] summer 2006 As The Romans Did: A SourcebookIn Roman Social History (Second Edition) by Jo-Ann Shelton [1998] Franz Kafka: The Complete Storiesby Franz Kafka [trans. 1971] Understanding Greek Vases:A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniquesby Andrew J. Clark, Maya Elston,and Mary Louise Hart [2002] The Annals of Imperial Romeby Tacitus [trans. 1956] Four Plays By Aristophanes by Aristophanes [trans. 1961/1962/1964] Early Greek Vase Paintingby John Boardman [1998] The Iliadby Homer [trans. 1974] The Reign of the Phallus:Sexual Politics in Ancient Athensby Eva C. Keuls [1985] Crabwalkby Günter Grass [2002] The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde [1891] A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manby James Joyce [1916] The Poetry of Friedrich Nietzscheby Philip Grundlehner [1986] Ancient Greek Laws: A Sourcebookby Ilias Arnaoutoglou [1998] Pu der Bärby A. A. Milne [deutsch edition: 1973] Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Textby Charles Segal [1986] Greek Tragedyby Erich Segal [1983] Revenge in Attic and Later Greek Tragedyby Anne Pippin Burnett [1998] The Birth of Tragedyby Friedrich Nietzsche [1871] fall 2006 Art and Experience in Classical Greeceby J. J. Pollitt [1972] The Oresteiaby Aeschylus [date forgotten] Greek Sculpture: The Late Classical Periodby John Boardman [1995] The Sculptures of the Parthenon:Aesthetics and Interpretationby Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf [2000] The Decline and Fall of Virgilin Eighteenth-Century GermanyTHE REPRESSED MUSEby Geoffrey Atherton [2006] The Odysseytranslated from Homer by George Chapman [1614] The German Tradition of Psychologyin Literature and Thought, 1700-1840by Matthew Bell [2005] Sixty Poems of Martial, in translationby Dudley Fitts [1967] Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculptureby Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway [1997] Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens:Rhetoric, Ideology, and thePower of the Peopleby Josiah Ober [1989] Extremely Loud & Incredibly Closeby Jonathan Safran Foer [2005] spring 2007 The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greeceby Claude Calame [1995 English translation] Allusions and Intertext:Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetryby Stephen Hinds [1996] summer 2007 The History of the Peloponnesian Warby Thucydides [431 BCE] The Strangerby Albert Camus [1942] The Bell Jarby Sylvia Plath [1963] Dublinersby James Joyce [1914] Illuminationsby Walter Benjamin [1969] Oedipus at Colonus:Sophocles, Athens, and the Worldby Andreas Markantanotos [2007] Human, All Too Humanby Friedrich Nietsche [1878] Ovid- The Erotic Poemstranslated by Peter Green [1982] Candideby Voltaire [1759] The Sorrows of Young Wertherby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1774] fall 2007 Chokeby Chuck Palahniuk [2001] Thus Spoke Zarathustraby Friedrich Nietzsche [1883] The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedyedited by P. E. Easterling [1997] A Poetry Handbookby Mary Oliver [1994] The Latin Sexual Vocabularyby J. N. Adams [1982] spring 2008 Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogueby Helma Dik [2007] Winteringby Kate Moses [2003] A History of Greek Literature:From Homer to the Hellenistic Periodby Albrecht Dihle [1991] Njal's Sagaby author unknown Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley [1932] Gorgiasby Plato The Saga of the Volsungsby author unknown The Poetic Eddaby author unknown [various dates] Reflections:Essays, Aphorisms, andAutobiographical Writingsby Walter Benjamin [1978] Doctor Faustusby Christopher Marlowe [1592] The Nibelungenliedby an unknown poet [1200] Reading Greek Tragedyby Simon Goldhill [1986] Phaedrusby Plato The Power of Imagesin the Age of Augustusby Paul Zanker [1988] Caesar's Civil Warby William W. Batstone and Cynthia Damon [2006] Caesar: The Civil Wartranslation by John Carter [1998] summer 2008 Before You Leap:A Frog's-Eye View of Life'sGreatest Lessonsby Kermit the Frog [2006] Eddaby Snorri Sturluson [1220] Selected Poemsby T. S. Eliot [1930] The Elements of Style Illustratedby Strunk and White [1929] 100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez [1967] Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parkerby Dorothy Parker [1996] Collected Poemsby Emily Dickinson [] Byron's Poetryby George Gordon, Lord Byron [] Small Godsby Terry Pratchett [1994] Memories of My Melancholy Whoresby Gabriel Garcia Marquez [2004] On The Roadby Jack Kerouac [1951] fall 2008 Greek Love Reconsideredby Thomas K. Hubbard [2000] On Translating Homerby Matthew Arnold [1862] The Invention of Loveby Tom Stoppard [1998] Erotic Tales of Medieval Germanyby Albrecht Classen [2007] Long, Long Agoby Alexander Woollcott [1943] In the Vineyard of the Text:A Commentary to Hugh's Didascaliconby Ivan Illich [1996] The Communist Manifestoby Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels [1847] Selected Poemsby Elizabeth Barrett Browning [1988] Textual Criticismby Paul Maas [1958] Medieval Studies: An Introduction(Second Edition)edited by James M. Powell [1992] Juvenal: The Sixteen Satirestranslated by Peter Green [1974] Latin Paleography: Antiquityand the Middle Agesby Bernhard Bischoff [1979] Less Than Zeroby Bret Easton Ellis [1985] The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmtranslated by Jack Zipes [2003] Old Christmasby Washington Irving [1819] spring 2009 Heinrich von Kleist: Playsedited by Walter Hinderer [1982] East of the Sunand West of the Moonillustrated by Kay Nielsen [1914] The History of Make-Believe:Tacitus on Imperial Romeby Holly Haynes [2003] The Pooh Perplexby Frederick Crews [2003] Over to You: Ten storiesof fliers and flyingby Roald Dahl [1946] Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen [1813] The History of Sexuality, Volume I:An Introductionby Michel Foucault [1976] The History of Sexuality, Volume II:The Use of Pleasureby Michel Foucault [1985] The History of Sexuality, Volume III:The Care of the Selfby Michel Foucault [1980]1976 The Sandman: Endless Nightsby Neil Gaiman [2003] The Poems of Wilfred Owencollected by Jon Stallworthy [1986] Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage:Misogamous Literature From Juvenal to Chaucerby Elizabeth M. Makowski and Katharina M. Wilson [1990] Good Omens: The Niceand Accurate Propheciesof Agnes Nutter, Witchby Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman [1990] Breakfast at Tiffany'sby Truman Capote [1950] Greek Word Orderby K. J. Dover [1960] Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Timeand the Beginnings of Historyby Denis Feeney [2007] Latin Language and Latin Culturefrom ancient to modern timesby Joseph Farrell [2001] Old Christmasby Washington Irving [1824] The Annalsby Tacitus, A. J. Woodman trans. [2004] 40 Short Stories:A Portable Anthology, Second Editionby Beverly Lawn [2004] HAUNTS: Archaeology Get Fuzzy *TASKS: * :: read another book :: :: study, like a good egg :: STRIKE THAT- REVERSE IT: June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 April 2009 July 2009 August 2009 October 2009 December 2009 Of course, I did not create this template myself. 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*BOOKS CURRENTLY READING: * The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeatsby W. B. Yeats [1996] Engineering in the Ancient World:Revised Editionby J. G. Landels [2000] The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetryby James W. Halporn [1994] European LiteratureAnd the Latin Middle Agesby Ernst Robert Curtius [1973] The Jugurthine War andThe Conspiracy of Catilineby Sallust [1963 translation] Introduction to Manuscript Studiesby Raymond Clemens [2007] Anthology of European Romantic Poetryby Michael Ferber [2005]
*BOOKS COMPLETED: * summer 2005 The Aeneidby Vergil [trans. 1981] Romaji Diary and Sad Toysby Takuboku Ishikawa [1909 & 1912] Greece in the Making: 1200-429 BCby Robin Osborne [1996] Spectacles of Death in Ancient Romeby Donald G. Kyle [1998] Roman Aqueducts and Water Supplyby A. Trevor Hodge [1992] fall 2005 What's The Matter With Kansas?by Thomas Frank [2004] Maus IIby Art Spiegelman [1986] Sapphics Against Angerby Timothy Steele [1986] The Diamond Ageor A Young Lady's Illustrated Primerby Neal Stephenson [1995] The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon [abrdg. 1987] spring 2006 Law, Sexuality, and Society:The Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athensby David Cohen [1991] Kosmos: Essays in Order,Conflict and Community in Classical Athensedited by Paul Cartledge, Paul Millettand Sitta von Reden [1998] summer 2006 As The Romans Did: A SourcebookIn Roman Social History (Second Edition) by Jo-Ann Shelton [1998] Franz Kafka: The Complete Storiesby Franz Kafka [trans. 1971] Understanding Greek Vases:A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniquesby Andrew J. Clark, Maya Elston,and Mary Louise Hart [2002] The Annals of Imperial Romeby Tacitus [trans. 1956] Four Plays By Aristophanes by Aristophanes [trans. 1961/1962/1964] Early Greek Vase Paintingby John Boardman [1998] The Iliadby Homer [trans. 1974] The Reign of the Phallus:Sexual Politics in Ancient Athensby Eva C. Keuls [1985] Crabwalkby Günter Grass [2002] The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde [1891] A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manby James Joyce [1916] The Poetry of Friedrich Nietzscheby Philip Grundlehner [1986] Ancient Greek Laws: A Sourcebookby Ilias Arnaoutoglou [1998] Pu der Bärby A. A. Milne [deutsch edition: 1973] Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Textby Charles Segal [1986] Greek Tragedyby Erich Segal [1983] Revenge in Attic and Later Greek Tragedyby Anne Pippin Burnett [1998] The Birth of Tragedyby Friedrich Nietzsche [1871] fall 2006 Art and Experience in Classical Greeceby J. J. Pollitt [1972] The Oresteiaby Aeschylus [date forgotten] Greek Sculpture: The Late Classical Periodby John Boardman [1995] The Sculptures of the Parthenon:Aesthetics and Interpretationby Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf [2000] The Decline and Fall of Virgilin Eighteenth-Century GermanyTHE REPRESSED MUSEby Geoffrey Atherton [2006] The Odysseytranslated from Homer by George Chapman [1614] The German Tradition of Psychologyin Literature and Thought, 1700-1840by Matthew Bell [2005] Sixty Poems of Martial, in translationby Dudley Fitts [1967] Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculptureby Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway [1997] Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens:Rhetoric, Ideology, and thePower of the Peopleby Josiah Ober [1989] Extremely Loud & Incredibly Closeby Jonathan Safran Foer [2005] spring 2007 The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greeceby Claude Calame [1995 English translation] Allusions and Intertext:Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetryby Stephen Hinds [1996] summer 2007 The History of the Peloponnesian Warby Thucydides [431 BCE] The Strangerby Albert Camus [1942] The Bell Jarby Sylvia Plath [1963] Dublinersby James Joyce [1914] Illuminationsby Walter Benjamin [1969] Oedipus at Colonus:Sophocles, Athens, and the Worldby Andreas Markantanotos [2007] Human, All Too Humanby Friedrich Nietsche [1878] Ovid- The Erotic Poemstranslated by Peter Green [1982] Candideby Voltaire [1759] The Sorrows of Young Wertherby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1774] fall 2007 Chokeby Chuck Palahniuk [2001] Thus Spoke Zarathustraby Friedrich Nietzsche [1883] The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedyedited by P. E. Easterling [1997] A Poetry Handbookby Mary Oliver [1994] The Latin Sexual Vocabularyby J. N. Adams [1982] spring 2008 Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogueby Helma Dik [2007] Winteringby Kate Moses [2003] A History of Greek Literature:From Homer to the Hellenistic Periodby Albrecht Dihle [1991] Njal's Sagaby author unknown Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley [1932] Gorgiasby Plato The Saga of the Volsungsby author unknown The Poetic Eddaby author unknown [various dates] Reflections:Essays, Aphorisms, andAutobiographical Writingsby Walter Benjamin [1978] Doctor Faustusby Christopher Marlowe [1592] The Nibelungenliedby an unknown poet [1200] Reading Greek Tragedyby Simon Goldhill [1986] Phaedrusby Plato The Power of Imagesin the Age of Augustusby Paul Zanker [1988] Caesar's Civil Warby William W. Batstone and Cynthia Damon [2006] Caesar: The Civil Wartranslation by John Carter [1998] summer 2008 Before You Leap:A Frog's-Eye View of Life'sGreatest Lessonsby Kermit the Frog [2006] Eddaby Snorri Sturluson [1220] Selected Poemsby T. S. Eliot [1930] The Elements of Style Illustratedby Strunk and White [1929] 100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez [1967] Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parkerby Dorothy Parker [1996] Collected Poemsby Emily Dickinson [] Byron's Poetryby George Gordon, Lord Byron [] Small Godsby Terry Pratchett [1994] Memories of My Melancholy Whoresby Gabriel Garcia Marquez [2004] On The Roadby Jack Kerouac [1951] fall 2008 Greek Love Reconsideredby Thomas K. Hubbard [2000] On Translating Homerby Matthew Arnold [1862] The Invention of Loveby Tom Stoppard [1998] Erotic Tales of Medieval Germanyby Albrecht Classen [2007] Long, Long Agoby Alexander Woollcott [1943] In the Vineyard of the Text:A Commentary to Hugh's Didascaliconby Ivan Illich [1996] The Communist Manifestoby Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels [1847] Selected Poemsby Elizabeth Barrett Browning [1988] Textual Criticismby Paul Maas [1958] Medieval Studies: An Introduction(Second Edition)edited by James M. Powell [1992] Juvenal: The Sixteen Satirestranslated by Peter Green [1974] Latin Paleography: Antiquityand the Middle Agesby Bernhard Bischoff [1979] Less Than Zeroby Bret Easton Ellis [1985] The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmtranslated by Jack Zipes [2003] Old Christmasby Washington Irving [1819] spring 2009 Heinrich von Kleist: Playsedited by Walter Hinderer [1982] East of the Sunand West of the Moonillustrated by Kay Nielsen [1914] The History of Make-Believe:Tacitus on Imperial Romeby Holly Haynes [2003] The Pooh Perplexby Frederick Crews [2003] Over to You: Ten storiesof fliers and flyingby Roald Dahl [1946] Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen [1813] The History of Sexuality, Volume I:An Introductionby Michel Foucault [1976] The History of Sexuality, Volume II:The Use of Pleasureby Michel Foucault [1985] The History of Sexuality, Volume III:The Care of the Selfby Michel Foucault [1980]1976 The Sandman: Endless Nightsby Neil Gaiman [2003] The Poems of Wilfred Owencollected by Jon Stallworthy [1986] Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage:Misogamous Literature From Juvenal to Chaucerby Elizabeth M. Makowski and Katharina M. Wilson [1990] Good Omens: The Niceand Accurate Propheciesof Agnes Nutter, Witchby Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman [1990] Breakfast at Tiffany'sby Truman Capote [1950] Greek Word Orderby K. J. Dover [1960] Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Timeand the Beginnings of Historyby Denis Feeney [2007] Latin Language and Latin Culturefrom ancient to modern timesby Joseph Farrell [2001] Old Christmasby Washington Irving [1824] The Annalsby Tacitus, A. J. Woodman trans. [2004] 40 Short Stories:A Portable Anthology, Second Editionby Beverly Lawn [2004]
HAUNTS: Archaeology Get Fuzzy *TASKS: * :: read another book :: :: study, like a good egg ::
STRIKE THAT- REVERSE IT: June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 April 2009 July 2009 August 2009 October 2009 December 2009
