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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Good auguries.
20-Nov-09The Wooden Wall.
20-Nov-09Hindupur Sawing and sawing wood. “When the foe shall have taken whatever the limit of Cecrops Holds within it, and all which divine Cithaeron shelters, Then far-seeing Jove grants this to the prayers of Athena: Safe shall the wooden wall continue for thee and thy children.”
Fading Color.
08-Nov-09This is from late October. By now all the leaves are gone.
Catskill Mountain Eagle.
08-Nov-09As I headed to my car on Friday, a huge bird swooped out of a tree in my path and flew off. It was hard to see him well as he was flying directly away from me, but he was huge – wingspan seven or eight feet – and had a bright white tail. He […]
The Gothamist Pieces.
06-Nov-09I’m lazy of course and only recently learned how to get all these posts in one place, but here is the complete set. You have to click “view remaining entries” to get them all. http://gothamist.com/profile/kuhner/posts
The Packard Plant in Detroit.
06-Nov-09The Packard Plant was the target of this past year’s Detroit Safari; now it gets some treatment in the Wall Street Journal. Apparently some enterprising hipsters pushed a dumptruck out of the 4th floor of the building. How it got to the 4th floor of the abandoned plant is another question. There’s video of the […]
Victim Mentality.
03-Nov-09I distrust anyone who attempts to portray themselves as a victim. Some people are victims, certainly, but a managed, well-researched self-presentation as such is almost always a sign of some kind of derangement. Especially when you’re one of the most powerful people in the most powerful country in the world, of course. http://www.archny.org/news-events/columns-and-blogs/blog—the-gospel-in-the-digital-age/index.cfm?i=14042 We have […]
Living Latin
03-Nov-09SALVI, the North American Institute of Living Latin Studies (Septentrionale Americanum Latinitatis Vivae Institutum), has a new website up with various Latin resources, including a fair amount of information about their Rusticatio, the week-long Latin immersions we do during the summer. They’ve also got a piece I wrote with some hints for Latinists learning to […]
Our Dumb Predecessors.
03-Nov-09Whenever I think the world is coming to an end from stupidity, I just read old books. The one that has been inspiring me recently is (to be honest) Thoreau’s reading of old books. But Thoreau is approaching old-book status himself anyway: “I learn from Topsell’s Gesner, whose authority appears to be Albertus, that the […]
An Attempt At Self-Portraiture.
03-Nov-09When I moved up to the cabin, I brought a few boxes of unsorted papers with me, which I went through as the spirit prompted me. The completely useless papers – for with me, all things must be completely useless before I can destroy them – went into some paper bags which I keep by […]