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Alexander Woolcott

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Dave Barry

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Ovid

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*BOOKS CURRENTLY READING: *
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
by W. B. Yeats [1996]
Engineering in the Ancient World:
Revised Edition

by J. G. Landels [2000]
The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry
by James W. Halporn [1994]
European Literature
And the Latin Middle Ages

by Ernst Robert Curtius [1973]
The Jugurthine War and
The Conspiracy of Catiline

by Sallust [1963 translation]
Introduction to Manuscript Studies
by Raymond Clemens [2007]
Anthology of European Romantic Poetry
by Michael Ferber [2005]

*BOOKS COMPLETED: *
summer 2005
The Aeneid
by Vergil [trans. 1981]
Romaji Diary and Sad Toys
by Takuboku Ishikawa [1909 & 1912]
Greece in the Making: 1200-429 BC
by Robin Osborne [1996]
Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome
by Donald G. Kyle [1998]
Roman Aqueducts and Water Supply
by A. Trevor Hodge [1992]
fall 2005
What's The Matter With Kansas?
by Thomas Frank [2004]
Maus II
by Art Spiegelman [1986]
Sapphics Against Anger
by Timothy Steele [1986]
The Diamond Age
or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

by Neal Stephenson [1995]
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon
[abrdg. 1987]
spring 2006
Law, Sexuality, and Society:
The Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athens

by David Cohen [1991]
Kosmos: Essays in Order,
Conflict and Community in Classical Athens

edited by Paul Cartledge, Paul Millett
and Sitta von Reden [1998]
summer 2006
As The Romans Did: A Sourcebook
In Roman Social History (Second Edition)
by
Jo-Ann Shelton [1998]
Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
by Franz Kafka [trans. 1971]
Understanding Greek Vases:
A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques

by Andrew J. Clark, Maya Elston,
and Mary Louise Hart [2002]
The Annals of Imperial Rome
by Tacitus [trans. 1956]
Four Plays By Aristophanes
by Aristophanes [trans. 1961/1962/1964]
Early Greek Vase Painting
by John Boardman [1998]
The Iliad
by Homer [trans. 1974]
The Reign of the Phallus:
Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens

by Eva C. Keuls [1985]
Crabwalk
by Günter Grass [2002]
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde [1891]
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce [1916]
The Poetry of Friedrich Nietzsche
by Philip Grundlehner [1986]
Ancient Greek Laws: A Sourcebook
by Ilias Arnaoutoglou [1998]
Pu der Bär
by A. A. Milne [deutsch edition: 1973]
Interpreting Greek Tragedy:
Myth, Poetry, Text

by Charles Segal [1986]
Greek Tragedy
by Erich Segal [1983]
Revenge in Attic and Later Greek Tragedy
by Anne Pippin Burnett [1998]
The Birth of Tragedy
by Friedrich Nietzsche [1871]
fall 2006
Art and Experience in Classical Greece
by J. J. Pollitt [1972]
The Oresteia
by Aeschylus [date forgotten]
Greek Sculpture: The Late Classical Period
by John Boardman [1995]
The Sculptures of the Parthenon:
Aesthetics and Interpretation

by Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf [2000]
The Decline and Fall of Virgil
in Eighteenth-Century Germany
THE REPRESSED MUSE

by Geoffrey Atherton [2006]
The Odyssey
translated from Homer by George Chapman [1614]
The German Tradition of Psychology
in Literature and Thought, 1700-1840

by Matthew Bell [2005]
Sixty Poems of Martial, in translation
by Dudley Fitts [1967]
Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture
by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway [1997]
Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens:
Rhetoric, Ideology, and the
Power of the People

by Josiah Ober [1989]
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer [2005]
spring 2007
The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece
by Claude Calame [1995 English translation]
Allusions and Intertext:
Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry

by Stephen Hinds [1996]
summer 2007
The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides [431 BCE]
The Stranger
by Albert Camus [1942]
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath [1963]
Dubliners
by James Joyce [1914]
Illuminations
by Walter Benjamin [1969]
Oedipus at Colonus:
Sophocles, Athens, and the World

by Andreas Markantanotos [2007]
Human, All Too Human
by Friedrich Nietsche [1878]
Ovid- The Erotic Poems
translated by Peter Green [1982]
Candide
by Voltaire [1759]
The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1774]
fall 2007
Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk [2001]
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche [1883]
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
edited by P. E. Easterling [1997]
A Poetry Handbook
by Mary Oliver [1994]
The Latin Sexual Vocabulary
by J. N. Adams [1982]
spring 2008
Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogue
by Helma Dik [2007]
Wintering
by Kate Moses [2003]
A History of Greek Literature:
From Homer to the Hellenistic Period

by Albrecht Dihle [1991]
Njal's Saga
by author unknown
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley [1932]
Gorgias
by Plato
The Saga of the Volsungs
by author unknown
The Poetic Edda
by author unknown [various dates]
Reflections:
Essays, Aphorisms, and
Autobiographical Writings

by Walter Benjamin [1978]
Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe [1592]
The Nibelungenlied
by an unknown poet [1200]
Reading Greek Tragedy
by Simon Goldhill [1986]
Phaedrus
by Plato
The Power of Images
in the Age of Augustus

by Paul Zanker [1988]
Caesar's Civil War
by William W. Batstone
and Cynthia Damon
[2006]
Caesar: The Civil War
translation by John Carter [1998]
summer 2008
Before You Leap:
A Frog's-Eye View of Life's
Greatest Lessons

by Kermit the Frog [2006]
Edda
by Snorri Sturluson [1220]
Selected Poems
by T. S. Eliot [1930]
The Elements of Style Illustrated
by Strunk and White [1929]
100 Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [1967]
Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker
by Dorothy Parker [1996]
Collected Poems
by Emily Dickinson []
Byron's Poetry
by George Gordon, Lord Byron []
Small Gods
by Terry Pratchett [1994]
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [2004]
On The Road
by Jack Kerouac [1951]
fall 2008
Greek Love Reconsidered
by Thomas K. Hubbard [2000]
On Translating Homer
by Matthew Arnold [1862]
The Invention of Love
by Tom Stoppard [1998]
Erotic Tales of Medieval Germany
by Albrecht Classen [2007]
Long, Long Ago
by Alexander Woollcott [1943]
In the Vineyard of the Text:
A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon

by Ivan Illich [1996]
The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels [1847]
Selected Poems
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning [1988]
Textual Criticism
by Paul Maas [1958]
Medieval Studies: An Introduction
(Second Edition)

edited by James M. Powell [1992]
Juvenal: The Sixteen Satires
translated by Peter Green [1974]
Latin Paleography: Antiquity
and the Middle Ages

by Bernhard Bischoff [1979]
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis [1985]
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
translated by Jack Zipes [2003]
Old Christmas
by Washington Irving [1819]
spring 2009
Heinrich von Kleist: Plays
edited by Walter Hinderer [1982]
East of the Sun
and West of the Moon

illustrated by Kay Nielsen [1914]
The History of Make-Believe:
Tacitus on Imperial Rome

by Holly Haynes [2003]
The Pooh Perplex
by Frederick Crews [2003]
Over to You: Ten stories
of fliers and flying

by Roald Dahl [1946]
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen [1813]
The History of Sexuality, Volume I:
An Introduction

by Michel Foucault [1976]
The History of Sexuality, Volume II:
The Use of Pleasure

by Michel Foucault [1985] The History of Sexuality, Volume III:
The Care of the Self

by Michel Foucault [1980]
1976 The Sandman: Endless Nights
by Neil Gaiman [2003]
The Poems of Wilfred Owen
collected by Jon Stallworthy [1986]
Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage:
Misogamous Literature From Juvenal to Chaucer

by Elizabeth M. Makowski and Katharina M. Wilson [1990]
Good Omens: The Nice
and Accurate Prophecies
of Agnes Nutter, Witch

by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman [1990]
Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote [1950]
Greek Word Order
by K. J. Dover [1960]
Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time
and the Beginnings of History

by Denis Feeney [2007]
Latin Language and Latin Culture
from ancient to modern times

by Joseph Farrell [2001]
Old Christmas
by Washington Irving [1824]
The Annals
by Tacitus, A. J. Woodman trans. [2004]
40 Short Stories:
A Portable Anthology, Second Edition

by Beverly Lawn [2004]







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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

I owe dem Grair Bär a twenty-page term paper Monday morning. To avoid writing it, I have found this to preoccupy my time:

Write the names of the last twenty people who have written on your Facebook wall, and answer the questions below. Then, tag each of them, to be obnoxious.

1. Fisayo Delano
2. Emily Koch
3. Louis Lupinacci III
4. Justin Yost
5. David Booe
6. Megan Nordyke
7. Zach Stephenson
8. George Hawkins
9. Karen Sunday
10. Cody Timmons
11. Duane Helmberger
12. Amber Loeffler
13. Labrador Rodgers
14. Jessica Conejo
15. Jenni Ward
16. Amy Clissold
17. Karen Vasek
18. Devon Stewart
19. Harry Norsworthy
20. Polo

*How did you meet 7?
I believe we met officially when we were in the same homeroom class with Mrs. Kerber in fifth grade, but I saw him around in elementary school before then, probably.

*What would you do if you had never met 18?
I might never have ridiculed Black History Month so guiltlessly.

*What would you do if you dated 15?
I would be black.

*Have you ever seen 17 cry?
No, but I'm certain working at Sam's Place made her want to cry much of the time.

*Would 4 and 16 make a good couple?
No, but they would certainly make an entertaining couple.

*Do you like 19?
I love black people.

*Do you think 13 is attractive?
I have been pining away for Mr. Travis Rodgers from the first day I saw him in Latin class. We have almost nothing in common, he's handsome, older, and married, with children. Which means he's the perfect man for me.

*When was the last time you talked to 9?
Verbally, face-to-face: sometime within the past two months, but I cannot remember specifically. We've written on each other's Facebook walls a couple of times, yesterday most recently.

*Would you ever date 2?
I've considered it, but she's far too pretty. I would only date someone uglier or at the same level as myself.

*Where does 20 live?
I'm not certain, but perhaps at his frat house.

*What is the best thing about 4?
His glasses. They were what first attracted me to him.

*What would you like to tell 10 right now?
That I'm pregnant.

*What is the best thing about 20?
His friendliness- we really have little in common, when I think it over, but Polo is the sort of person one can not have seen for months, but still have something to talk about when we do meet.

*Have you ever kissed 18?
Nope. Kissing is icky.

*What's the best memory you have of 5?
Making fun of customers at work.

*When's the next time you’re going to see 12?
We're not certain- I haven't seen her since I was seven!

*Is 3 pretty?
Yes, if one defines pretty as, "a little on the thick side, pasty of complexion, easy to redden, blonde, wears glasses, has a friendly smile", then Louis Lupinacci III is very pretty indeed.

*What was your first impression of 15?
That I would be working for a flake. And boy, was I right!

*How did you meet 2?
I probably first saw Emily, ever, when she moved to my hometown in fourth grade and sat in line with her class during gym. We probably first dealt with each other when we were both in the fourth grade Spelling Bee. She won, the bitch. I think I placed second, which seems to happen often.

*Is 12 your best friend?
No, but I think I would have considered her my best friend in kindergarten. I was very sad about moving away. She was the only person from when I lived in San Antonio whose full name I could remember, so I Facebook-stalked her a few months ago to find out what happened to her.

*Have you seen 6 in the last month?
Nope. She hides. I hide. We are not clever enough to find each other.

*When was the last time you saw 16?
Too long ago- I cannot remember. It's been months.

*Have you been to 9's house?
"Apartment", yes, several times.

*When is the next time you'll see 10?
I have no idea- perhaps we'll both be around campus during the summer.

*Are you really close to 6?
About certain things- I've had deep conversations with Megan, but we don't see each other enough to know each other really well. She's still pretty high up on my Friend-O-Meter.

*Have you been to the movies with 11?
No, but I'll consider it, if he pays.

*Would you give 13 a hug?
I'd give 13 lots of things- a hug would only be the beginning.

*When have you lied to 17?
Never, that I know of.

*Do you know a secret about 8?
Nope.

*Describe the relationship between 12 and 19.
I doubt Harry and Amber know each other. I would say Harry's probably taller.

*What's your friendship like with 7?
I consider Zach to be the doofy older brother I never had.

*Have you ever danced with 14?
Nope, but I know she likes to dance.

*How long have you known 13?
Two years.

*Does 11 have a boyfriend/girlfriend?
Nope.

*Have you ever wanted to punch 17 in the face?
Yes.

*Has 20 met your mother?
Nope- she died when I was thirteen.

*How did you meet 10?
We met when we worked ("work" being a relative term) at Strangle/Murder last summer.

*Have you traveled anywhere with 8?
Nope- we rarely see each other anymore.

*If you gave 4 $100, what would they spend it on?
Something computer or game-related, I would imagine.

*What is your best memory of 1?
Watching Fisayo dance and sing at work always made me tingly.


    [Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 9:06 PM]





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