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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 26, 2015, 02:54:22 pm ---Thanks for setting me straight correct about both the author and the scope of the article.
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Going a bit OT here, but do you know the book Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, by John Boswell? The book is easily 30 years old, or more, by now, and very dense (I remember footnotes in untranslated/untransliterated Greek), but Boswell, whom we lost to AIDS in the early 1990s, was an amazing scholar, and I remember the book as having a lot to say about Greek and Roman attitudes toward same-gender attraction and sexual activity. I ought to read it again myself some day.
Jeff Wrangler:
So at lunch today I read Adam Gopnik's Jan. 26 piece on the French write Michel Houellebecq. I sure wouldn't want to have dinner with that guy; in his picture he looks awfully depressed and sour. But as for the article, I admit I laughed aloud at Gopnik's line about the French 1960s, when "Catherine Deneuve was in every other movie." ;D
serious crayons:
I broke down after all and began the article about the guy who's an expert at making things go viral. It's more interesting than I thought it would be.
Jeff Wrangler:
The Feb. 2 issue arrived today, and I'm already enjoying Elizabeth Kolbert's article about Seneca.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 29, 2015, 10:59:24 pm ---The Feb. 2 issue arrived today, and I'm already enjoying Elizabeth Kolbert's article about Seneca.
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Me too. It has been my lunchtime reading for the past couple of days.
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