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Jan 24

Tolkien Reread 2: ‘The Ring Goes South’

[Part 1 of this reread is here]

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Jan 22

Is the title ‘Lord of the Rings’ indicative or subjunctive?

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Jan 21

Tolkien Reread 1: ‘The Ring Sets Out’

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Jan 18

Publishing ‘The Lord of the Rings’

What I knew about the original publication of The Lord of the Rings I gleaned from Humphrey…

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Jan 15

Pindar, ‘Pythian 2’

[The Greek from which this has been translated is here]

μεγαλοπόλιες ὦ Συράκοσαι …”
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Jan 13

If Lear Wrote Carroll

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The Lad and the Jabberwock went to sea
 In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took two toves…

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Jan 12

What do we call a ‘violence-prude’?

Sex, as the phrase goes, and violence. And here’s the thing: I have no problem with reading about…

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Jan 9

‘Sophocles, long ago …’: Dover Beach

Here’s Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’ (probably written 1851; first published 1867). It’s one…

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Jan 6

Who Painted This Dragon?

You may already know, of course. But if you don’t, who would you guess? This crocodilic beast lurks in the…

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Dec 31, 2022

Posts of 2022

I blogged lots on this Medium ‘Notebook’ in 2022, though I was but little read. It may be that the format is wrong for what I do, or…

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