Author: Thomas Fleming
Studying War: Bellicose Hypocrisies
The conventional position taken in academic discourse is that war can only be excused in extreme cases usually defined by one party’s assertion of higher motive. If repetition of a lie confers truth, then the justification for modern wars is unassailable.
Preface to “Studying War”, Part II (Conclusion)
Bits of this rewritten and expanded section were posted earlier.
Poem: Last Call
This song, which inspired Lawrence Block’s novel “When the Sacred Ginmill Closes,” is not for young people or the faint of heart, but it is carefully composed. Block and Van Ronk were good friends, and both were alcoholics.
Studying War: Preface
These paragraphs, now at the beginning of the chapter, were inspired by a drive to the Hosios Loukas Monastery in Central Greece
Autodidact: Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy, III
Our noble ancestors, we should always bear in mind, were never quite civilized people. They were descended from Goths and Saxons, Franks, Normans and Lombard. To the extent they were civilized, it was the result of the Christian Church and the study of the classics.
Greek I.25 WITH AUDIO and WRITE IN GREEK
Middle forms of contract verbs in-eo, plus temporal clauses
A Little Modern Greek
Anyone interested in Modern Greek will find resources rather slim pickings, The Pimsleur I and II–all they have done–will not get you much beyond: Hi what’s your name, how are you, a beer, pleas
