Monday, October 29, 2007
Tonight I ought to go to bed before midnight, for tomorrow I must finish preparing for Latin and Greek. Reading Propertius has required much less new vocabulary, and I have not yet found that he does anything too sneaky with grammar. Of course, I read only four or five of his poems this semester, but he wrote at least four books. Surely there exist more difficult ones.
Kleider machen Leute does not kill off its protagonists- the first piece of German literature I have read thus far that does not end in violent death. Most of the German text proceeds in a straightforward manner, although another student in class this morning pointed out that the sections where a particular character becomes particularly introspective become particularly difficult for the English-speaking reader. Within the next three or four days, I must sometime write a four-page paper auf Deutsch.
Now it is snuggle time with Kermie.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 9:22 PM]