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Author Archives: Uncomely and Broken
Protected: Liddell & Scott, A Little About Both
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Like a Fawn
My son and I saw two deer on the Sewanee bike-path this morning, and it reminded me of a Horatian ode. We were barreling along when a doe crossed far ahead of us. As we got closer, a younger deer … Continue reading
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Protected: Nestaurant, or Even the Sparrow Finds a Home
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Protected: A Tide in the Affairs of Men
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“Naked We Stand on the Naked Ground”
I have been cleaning out my office and found this item among some papers I had inherited when I became chair. It is poem about Statius’ Thebaid by my former colleague and well-loved Sewanee Classics professor, Bill Bonds. It is … Continue reading
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Protected: Concerning Flowers and Soldiers
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Leda in the News
In connection with a recent auction at Sotheby’s, there’s a piece on the arte10 website today about the colored steel panels of Leda and the Swan that pop artist Roy Lichtenstein made for the bathroom in gazillionaire Gunter Sachs’s penthouse … Continue reading
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The Hills of Sewanee
The Hills of Sewanee Sewanee Hills of dear delight, Prompting my dreams that used to be, I know you are waiting me still to-night By the Unika Range of Tennessee. The blinking stars in endless space, The broad moonlight and … Continue reading
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