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LATN 403 Spr 20: the new dispensation

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

  March 19, 2020 Dear Imperial Roman Prose students, Welcome to my blog, which I have been running for most of the last decade.  It’s a fairly low-tech venue, and one I am familiar with, so I have been thinking … Continue reading →

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Protected: Basil Rathbone on accents

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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go figure

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”–Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations  

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Protected: Thud & Blunder (1964)

Posted on August 18, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

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Antigone in Sewanee 1894

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

An update, April 2023: Willis Wilkinson Memminger, who played Antigone in the production, was the grandson of Christopher Memminger, the Confederate Secretary of the Treasury. Here he is on the CSA $5 bill, via Wikipedia: Various Notices on the Sewanee … Continue reading →

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“Thoroughly Useless Nation”: Mommsen on the Irish

Posted on August 5, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

From Theodor Mommsen (trans. William P. Dickson) History of Rome, Vol. 4 (London 1867), Book 5, Chapter 7, pp. 286-87 (link here) Mind you, an edition of this work won a goddam Nobel Prize for Literature in 1902 In the mighty … Continue reading →

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Domine ne in furore tuo arguas

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

These images are take from the recently-recovered Fauquier Book of Hours, on which my friend and colleague Greg Clark is an expert, as discussed in the video below. The scene illustrated is from Psalm 6, the opening of which is … Continue reading →

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Tim’s Ford notes

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

This is just a page on which I intend to stick things I find out about Tim’s Ford lake. Other links:  

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Protected: Modern origins of the manly-man Roman fore-arm handshake

Posted on July 8, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: “The Hitler Gang”

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

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