Thursday, August 02, 2007
The day before yesterday I picked up a library book with the fetching title: Poetry as performance: Homer and beyond, but after reading through two repetitive chapters that convey no information in particular, I have decided to hurl this disappointing contribution to the mound of useless classical scholarship down the returned items chute. The Cambridge University Press should be ashamed.
Tomorrow or the next day I will thus be free to begin reading The Bacchae in translation. My reading schedule depends on the factors of whether I begin moving my worldly goods into the new Lauree Lair this weekend or afterward and of whether I satisfactorily complete my research for a paper about Texas immigration policy. I have begun with reading about border control policy during the Clinton administration, but I need to follow up on the statistics gathered, legislation enacted, policies amended/added, etc. since 2001.
One article I have read quoted an INS report as stating that a decrease in apprehensions indicates the efficacy of increased border control. Ingenious. The author of the article then proceeded, rightly, to elaborate that most scholars consider such numbers dubious and inaccurate as a reflection of the effectiveness of the border policy implemented during the Clinton and W. administrations.
I should quit researching and go to bed.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 8:49 PM]