aleatory contract

my own personal Waterloo

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

to sway me toward attending, they sent me a copy of the lattimore Iliad. it's shiny.

Unknown said...: Dang, girl, nobody ever sent me shiny things.; 6/26/2007 8:57 AM
Anonymous said...: Yeah, they do that in Fe. (I got one because that's where I originally applied, even though I ended up going to Annapolis as a Febbie so I wouldn't have to wait an extra year.); 6/26/2007 10:19 AM
Anonymous said...: They should have sent you the Fitzgerald, or at least the Fagles. The Lattimore would have run me off.; 6/26/2007 2:56 PM
mg said...: Beats the Pope.

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/iliad1.html

I knew a guy in Santa Fe who read that the summer before convocation because it was the only copy his local library had.

He was worried.; 6/26/2007 5:22 PM
Unknown said...: Oh! I knew Alexander Pope had translated it, but when I saw Mike's comment I thought that Ratzinger had translated it or something, and that had me thinking that worried would be an understatement.; 6/26/2007 5:30 PM
anne said...: mike: when i read your comment, i momentarily parsed it to mean that someone had mailed prospective students the pope. which would rate way better as swag. (i... think?)

i actually rather like the lattimore. i'd worry more about the puffy prose of the letter accompanying the volume, really. it's quite impressive.; 6/27/2007 8:09 AM