Apologia Pro Literati Vita
Friday, April 13, 2018

Quote: Gene Healy on the Imperiling Presidency

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from The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power  by Gene Healy. p. 265 Over the course of the 20th...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

My UnTwitter

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How I use Twitter: "This looks interesting. It reminds me of something..." Spend time looking for the quote, image, etc. If n...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Mow Vergil, Mow Problems

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Forged by Vulcan himself, the Aeneas 500 cuts through grass, weeds, Greeks, Rutulians, and more! My wife and I often spend the duration...
Friday, April 6, 2018

Things I Don't Get: Beethoven in Smurfs for the ColecoVision

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Vienna, 1802. Ludwig van Beethoven takes a stroll through in country outside the city. The birds are singing as a soft, wispy cloud moment...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Dvorak, Go Where I Send Thee?

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The incorporation of folk forms of expression into works of higher art is an old tradition in Western music, and we find some of that tradi...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Thoughts on Homeschooling, Part I

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Parents usually surprise me by approving of my wife's and my intent to educate our children ourselves. Older folks and people without...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Quote: On The Teaching of Benjamin Jowett

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from,  The Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett: Master of Balliol College, Oxford . by Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell. 1897. Vol I. p. 1...
Saturday, March 17, 2018

Mozart's 'Seraglio' Staged as 'Star Trek'

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Thursday, March 15, 2018

Quote: Sallust on Self-Indulgence

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Sallust. Bellum Catilinae . 13. (Trans. J. C. Rolfe. 1921) . . .the passion which arose for lewdness, gluttony, and the other attendants...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Quote: Heidegger on The Poet and the Fugitive Gods

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Martin Heidegger. Poetry, Language, Thought . "What Are Poets For?" Translated by Albert Hofstadter Poets are the mortals who,...
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