There have been more comfortable trips to Italy. The flight was delayed for over an hour in which repairmen fixed some problem in the toilet. They could have simply locked up the one of many facilities, but since the flight was full of young female travelers, who absolutely must hear the sound of running water at least once in every hour, they made the right decision.
First, although LL only presents two tenses, there are in fact four tenses of the subjunctive, just as there were in Latin. In addition to present and Passato Rimoto, there are also:
Conditional sentences are not restricted to clauses of the “If/…then” type. The “if clause” may be replaced by either a relative clause or a participial construction.
With the threat, looming over our heads, that a film version of the Odyssey is soon to be released
It is very disturbing to read or hear self-described conservative women, some of them patriotic Southerners, who use off-color diction, such as saying this or that “s-cks”–and please don’t tell me you don’t know the reference–or “p-ssed off” and dozen of other childish attempts to sound tough.
I was about 35 during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, and in the village where I lived, someone I had known slightly–he was everyone else’s cousin–returned from Iran, where he was an executive with Aramco.
In the so-called “Romantic Era”–I detest these misleading names devised and applied by petty minds–industrialization and urbanization awakened some poets to the Satanic threat of progress
Who could ever have believed, back in the dull old days of Eisenhower and Kennedy, that Conservative Republicans would be asked to choose between Erika Kirk and Candace Owens, two dizzy broads who can’t tell up from down much less right from left or right from wrong? Who could have predicted that the NFL would become a nest of traitors and degenerates, while conservatives would turn to an alternative program featuring Kid Rock? One could go on, but that would only antagonize the stultified fans of Greg Gutfeld, Tucker Carlson, Glen Beck, Alex Jones, Ben Shapiro, National Review and every...
For the next few months we shall be posting many more poems than usual, all by English poets in the Victorian Age. These are the poems that will certainly be discussed in Summer School.
