Author: Thomas Fleming
Italian Aug 13
First, I want to hear how you did with the first ten pages of Delitto. Any problems? Is ten pages too much or too little for one week. You should be aiming for at least 100 pages per week eventually, so as you feel more confident, let me know the rate at which you want to read.
The Odyssey–Why Bother?
The first step toward understanding the Greek mind—how they thought about human life, about right and wrong, and about politics—a word they bequeathed to us—will have to be to take a plunge into the violent world of the Iliad and Odyssey
Italian: Delitto al Pinot Nero
We’ll be taking up more subjunctive forms and uses and looking closely again at the Passato Rimoto.
Crime in the Pinot Noir
America the Savage
Right or Left, Republican or Democrat, Americans are a very sick people, and the only proof you need are the innumerable posts rushing to blame the other side in a case where no one yet knows what motivated the murderer. Of the two groups
Darkness Visible, the Elizabethans, Part V: The School of Night
So far, we have learned that the Renaissance, while it certainly celebrated human reason, also witnessed the revival of neopagan, anti-Christian magic. This Hermetic movement, which takes its name from the writings written under the name Hermes Trismegistus, aimed at finding the secrets of making gold, creating living creatures, liberating men from the Christian religion and Christian morality,
Italian IV.4: More Subjunctive Forms
Nearly every popular Italian language series with which I am familiar, including Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, etc, as well as the podcasts would have you believe that learning grammar is out of date.
Darkness Visible, The Elizabethans, IV
Unfortunately, neopaganism does not merely have a dark side. It is the dark side of the classical revival in general and of Hellenism in particular
