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You say I need a job
I got my own business
You 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 once
but you can always be immature.
Dave Barry

It is convenient
that 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 White
The Elements of Style




*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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The Man In The Mack Says, "You've Got To Go Back"
Thursday, November 29, 2007

Yesterday, the coffee I had stuffed into my backpack burst forth upon The Great Scott, my mega-groß Greek-English lexicon. The lip of the cover on my mug never closed all the way. Oh, well- perhaps the faded scent of mocha will overpower the more reeky smell of my hand sweat.

Ich kann mich nicht konzentrieren, weil ich um fünf Uhr gewacht habe.


    [Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 7:30 PM]



Fist Holding Tight To The String Of Your Kite
Monday, November 19, 2007

I wish I were a jewel thief. The man who taught my dad and his siblings how to swim turned out to be a famous jewel thief, nicknamed "Murf the Surf". My father swims and surfs quite well, but I would rather Jack Murphy had versed my father in the more lucrative art of robbery, because that might have translated to a substantially greater amount and quality of Christmas presents for me thirty years later.

The past few Christmases I spent with la familia, The Father informed me and my four siblings that Santa had allotted us each ungefähr one hundred fifty dollars, which, after tax, corresponds to the cost of a fascinating toy I saw in the WAL*MART supplement to this past Saturday's Lubbock Avalanche Journal, which I flipped through in the back of house at work between taking and making sandwich orders for people who were too lazy to remain at home to lunch with their families, but instead got dressed and drove to Schlotzky's Deli on 19th Street in Lubbock, Texas for the purpose of waiting around for a sandwich prepared by moi.

I beckoned Maria, a Hispanic lady old enough to be my mother, whose English consists almost exclusively of restaurant lingo, to stand for a moment beside me at the meat slicer for a view of what I had decided I wanted for Feliz Navidad. I tapped the price listed beside the photograph of the robot panda, at which Maria exhaled, "Pssh". Though I cannot speak Spanish, my receptive understanding of it has steadily improved over the years I have worked several mindless foodservice jobs: "Pssh" en espanol signifies many things, but in this instance translates roughly to: "What sort of over-indulgent parents would spend one hundred fifty dollars on one useless and very possibly evil toy for their pampered little brat?"

The sort of parents I wish I had, that's who!


    [Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 9:41 PM]



Wer Ist Am Tor?
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Ich hab' die Bakchen gefunden... eben lustiger auf Deutsch! Die Übersetzung von Griechisch zu Deutsch muß leichter sein, weil die Wörter beiden Sprächen einfacher sind. Ich habe gelesen, was ich früher auf Griechisch gelesen habe. Sehr lustig.

Ich habe eine Projeckt, die Zeilen einhundertachtundsiebzig bis einhundertneunzig zu analysieren. Zuerst spricht Kadmos, der Früher der König des Theberlands war:
Mein Bester! deine Stimme hab ich wohl erkannt,
Des weisen Mannes weisen Ruf, im Hause drin
Und komme fertig mit dem heiligen Festgerät.
Mir ziemt's, den Gott, der meiner Tochter Sohn ist, schön
Und hoch zu ehren, wie's in meinen Kräften steht.
Wo muß ich nun hintanzen, wohin wandeln? wo
Die greisen Locken schwingen? Führe du mich an,
Der Greis den Greis, du, weiser Mann, Teiresias!
Ich werde, nimmer müde, Tag und Nächte lang
Den Boden schlagen mit dem Stab: mein Alter mag
Ich gern vergessen! -
Nun spricht Teiresias, der Mittler:
Das ist meine Meinung auch!
Ich bin verjüngt und aufgelegt zum Reigentanz.
Ich liebe die Deutschen.

Ich habe die Zeilen gelesen, als ich am Dr. Christiansen erwarten habe. Er ist der Professor, der am nächsten Semester mir Griechisch unterrichten wird. Er hat kein Raum, eine andere Kurs zu schaffen, aber er hat gesagt, daß wir treffen können, wenn wir wollen. Wir fangen mit Lucian an. Ausgezeichnet.


    [Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 10:00 AM]



Ein Ärmes Kind Bin Ich
Friday, November 02, 2007

About a week and-a-half ago on a library trip I found Syntax der deutschen Sprache, which I finally have time to peruse as I compose a paper analyzing some aspect of Kleider machen Leute this evening. Ich habe die Handlung einfacher zu verstehen gefunden, als die andere Geschichte, daß ich vorher gelesen habe. Heute fang ich Immensee von Theodor Storm zu lesen an; ich glaube, daß Immensee besser wird. Die zwei Kinder am Anfang der Novelle sind lustig.

Ich liebe Netflix. Ich bin immer im Stress, weil ich zu viel zu tun habe. Es gibt nur eine Lauree. Ein kleine Lauree. Watching a movie before bed makes me have dreams; if I spend all of one day or all of one week going to school, going to work, and sleeping in between, I usually do not dream, or dream very little, or dream nothing memorable. The unstimulating, unproductive cycle stunts my imagination and creativity.

Last night I watched Quills, which I liked well enough, though I found certain points contentious. The ending in particular, mostly for being a little too appropriate and predictable, left me unsatisfied. And though the film is set in Europe, I sensed more American sensibilities toward the subject matter.

Jetzt muß ich Deutsch lesen.


    [Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 4:48 PM]





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