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Zoom Chat at Sugarland 95 conference Sept 10, 2021

Posted on October 2, 2022 by Uncomely and Broken

Me to Everyone (11:58 AM) GHOSTS OF LONE ROCK Chris McDonough University of the South Sewanee, TN cmcdonou@sewanee.edu Stephen Garrett Stephen@slgarrett.com Mine 21 https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/mine-21 Steven Hoelscher to Everyone (11:58 AM) Wow! Amazing! Shun Foreman to Everyone (11:59 AM) It started … Continue reading →

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The Mall (an exercise in dactylic hexameter)

Posted on October 13, 2021 by Uncomely and Broken

To introduce my students to dactyls (-uu), I showed them a pair of famous examples in tetrameter: All the kings’ horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. Picture yourself in a boat on a river withtangerine … Continue reading →

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Etymology of “ark”

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Uncomely and Broken

This is an arcane matter (I use the adjective advisedly), but I am wondering about the etymology in English of the word “ark,” as in Noah’s. It is an odd word, used only of this particular ship and not of any … Continue reading →

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What the heck is this rock? Slag

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Uncomely and Broken

It’s been icy, snowy, rainy, and all kinds of wet around Sewanee lately, so unsurprisingly, the ground has disgorged a number of unusual items, one of which I came across as I was walking the dogs the other day. Google … Continue reading →

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Intergenerational Trauma bibliography

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

One of the things we study at Riggs is the intergenerational transmission of trauma and the weight of history in producing various symptoms.  Of course, as psychoanalysts we traffic in attempting to study the unconscious, so much of what is … Continue reading →

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Quake and Quarantine

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

So, last night, in the midst of the COVID-19 quarantine, we had an earthquake. At 3:33 AM. And, get this, it was 3.3 on the Richter Scale. It was only a few miles from our house, down in Lost Cove … Continue reading →

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Rainy evening reflections

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

It’s raining in Sewanee, and will be for the next few days, they say. Springtime has always been the season of showers around here, of course, a small price to pay for the green of the trees and grass. It’s … Continue reading →

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LATN 403 Spr 20: open book #2 exam, due Monday, May 4th at noon Central

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

Friday, May 1, 2020 Dear Imperial Roman Prose students, The exam on Tacitus’ Agricola is below, and it is due Monday, May 4th at noon Central.  Please send me an email with the subject line “LATN 403 Midterm 2: Your Last … Continue reading →

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Protected: LATN 403 Spr 20: Agricola, chap. 28

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Myth Spr 20: House of Cadmus 2

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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