Classical education notes
Living where I am, most people are into reading The Bible. This is OK, I guess, but my humanistic side longed for something else: something as dense and chewy, but different . I got my inspiration while "on vacation" in Martha's Place, another establishment for the homeless, reading two volumes of "The Limits of Art", an anthology of the best of the best (as selected by well-regarded editors) of Western Literature. Having totally charmed another resident by reading her a French love poem (a villanelle) I went on to read Milton's "Joy" and "Melancholy", and felt incredibly refreshed! Which led me to try the Five Foot Shelf. Every day, I'd log into Gateway Community College's computers, and download, sometimes in pieces, a reading assignment. Sometimes, I'd take whole volumes out: which caused me a major headache when, under the effects of wine, fatigue and a major cold, I lost one (owners of the Faust volume -- No. 29 --...