thomashendrickson.bsky.social
Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).
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Now I feel like I'M waiting for it!
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Me: (shrugs shoulders, closes the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae)
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Just keep watching that pot. It'll boil.
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I know. I give up. I'm going to do the dishes.
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Once more into the breeches, dear friends!
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For me, enough time to get from the American Academy down to St. Peter's square (nuns elbowing me out of the way as they dash ahead).
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Yes! But I would be delighted to see a Fere Innocens (Mostly Harmless)
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Perhaps a better term would be "intellectually credulous"
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And the addressee is evidently a leftist poet with an interesting life:
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Good for him!
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On a related note: do you think that the general European distaste for Orban would be a significant obstacle for Erdo? (Or would the European cardinals not be voting for someone like Erdo anyways?)
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When you think of it, it's VERY UNFAIR that he has to only give medals to others. VERY UNFAIR.
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Not John Paul III? I would think the name "Pius" would just be a bridge too far for anyone.
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Any chance Wilkinson just happens to have a clerk with some rhetorical flair at the moment?
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Eh, there's a full spectrum of them.
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ēheu-- I definitely don't know anything at the grad level.
Latinitas Animi Causa (I think) sometimes does intro level
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Just try telling that to my three-year-old
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Yeah, agreed. This definitely seems like the media trying to shoehorn things into a narrative they know rather than exploring something more nuanced.
(Me: I'd choose San Clemente.)
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What level do you have in mind?
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As a reader, I find the index locorum super helpful
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Bibliotheca Fictiva at Johns Hopkins-- a library of forgeries.