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Greek Books

Originally uploaded by C.K. Sample, III.

I recently picked up some New Testament Greek aids. The one on the left is a Reader’s Greek New Testament, which has the definitions for all the uncommon Greek words in the footnotes at the bottom of each page. [...]

This is amazing: Turning the Pagesâ„¢, the British Library.

Check out this (albeit a bit flowery in parts) interesting article:

To see him, leaning over the rooftop swimming pool embracing his eight-year-old son, Milan, a beautiful dark-haired boy, slippery as a seal—with no security, no bodyguards, not even a flicker of interest from the other Manhattanite parents—is evidence that there is, indeed, the possibility of [...]

I spotted this over at Playlist, but LibriVox is the kind of project that I like to see and that I hope succeeds:

If you’re reading this, please give us a plug on your blog, we’re a totally volunteer project just trying to see if we can make this idea work, so consider volunteering to [...]

This is a good discussion with Ilan Stavans, “the renowned critic of Latino and Latin American literature and culture, and the author of the controversial dictionary, Spanglish.” ThoughtCast looks like it will actually be a podcast to which I will listen regularly.

Salman Rushdie’s latest NYT Op-Ed entitled, India and Pakistan’s Code of Dishonor is rather disconcerting in its discernment of some of the major problems of these two cultures:

The “culture” of rape that exists in India and Pakistan arises from profound social anomalies, its origins lying in the unchanging harshness of a moral code based on [...]

Kottke points to David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon College Commencement Address.
Note to self: Read this later.
Note to Trevor: Do you think he was wearing his doo-rag (sp?)?

It’s Bloomsday. Let’s get some Guinness and get tanked!

Check it out: Ulysses: One Page Every Day:

It was then queried whether there were any special desires on the part of the defunct and the reply was: WE GREET YOU, FRIENDS OF EARTH, WHO ARE STILL IN THE BODY. MIND C. K. DOESN’T PILE IT ON. It was ascertained that the reference was to Mr [...]

Congrats to Jay for getting EgaTiki going:EngaTiki Project Online:

EngaTiki is a project I’ve been trying to put together for a while. In fact, it’s the reason I registered this domain in the first place. The goal is to create the worlds largest annotated bibliography/review site in literature and the humanities, kind of like [...]

Man. I am tired.
I’m starting to feel that my class is over. I still have to average out their grades, but it is done. No more getting up super early to teach until the Fall. On the other hand, I do have a pre-1800 Lit class to prepare for in [...]

Note to self: Read this in its entirety later: MoorishGirl: Rushdie Interview.

New old stuff. Cool.

The only reason that I am linking to MoorishGirl: Tayeb Salih on Arab Literature is because I think Season of Migration to The North is an excellent book that everyone should read.

Bookslut reports:

The (Jackson, Mississippi) Clarion-Ledger wonders who will carry on the Magnolia State’s literary tradition after the (fairly) recent deaths of Larry Brown, Eudora Welty, Willie Morris and Margaret Walker Alexander. (The article notes that Barry Hannah is “not writing much anymore,” but doesn’t mention his recent hospitalization in Texas for an “undisclosed illness.” Is [...]

Barry Hannah went to the college (I think he dropped out) where I received my undergrad degree, Mississippi College, a small Southern Baptist college in Clinton, MS. He satirized the school in his novel Geronimo Rex. For most of the literary types at MC who didn’t fall inline with the overly oppressive Southern Baptist [...]

This is cool: Boing Boing: Open access scholarly lit bibliography, with links.

Interesting read over at kottke.org: Why do they call it the loo? (kottke.org). FYI, according to the O.E.D., it is traced inconclusively back to the Waterloo mention by Joyce in Ulysses:

A. S. C. Ross’s examination of possible sources in Blackw. Mag. (1974) Oct. 309-16 is inconclusive: he favours derivation, in some manner that cannot be [...]

Arthur Miller died this weekend.
In 1993, while studying in London, I attended the premiere of The Last Yankee at the Young Vic, starring Zoë Wanamaker and Peter Davidson (of Dr. Who fame). I sat on the same row as Arthur Miller. I had to pass him in the aisle to get to my seat, [...]