progress of pauline @pauline@myna.social

If the date on the flyleaf is accurate, the European war had just started or was just about to start. Either way, young Don's own country would have a couple more years in the Spartan position of standing by.

Young Don's notes on Thucydides are more philological, but he wrote "cf. Nazi Germany" next to the Corinthians warning the Lacedaemonians about the Athenian national character:

"Thus they toil on in trouble and danger all the days of their life... to them laborious occupation is less of a misfortune than the peace of a quiet life. To describe their character in a word, one might truly say that they were born into the world to take no rest themselves and to give none to others." [1.70]

Young Don's notes on the Oresteia:

Woman like man
night like day
tragedy like joy
fire + darkness

Eumenides: Orestes saved because matter is not blood. Cf. Aristotle's idea of form & matter.

Orestes goes mad: the charioteer image p. 261

Appearance & Reality, p. 67
Depends upon assumption that there's a dichotomy.
Ulysses, p. 69, again, 123

In 2006 I decided that instead of studying what I was supposed to be studying, I wanted to learn ancient Greek. I went to Black Oak Books in north Berkeley and found a Loeb Oresteia and an Oxford Thucydides; Berkeley is a good town for this. On my way to the register I opened the covers and, there on the flyleaf I saw "Don Davidson," Harvard '38 and '39.

This is what happens to the libraries of eminent philosophers after they change state.

Reviewing the appeal letter I just sent Anthem in our ongoing tussle over coverage, discovered I had hyphenated "up-to-date" despite it not being in noun-preceding position, God DAMN it I feel like I let down the whole team

@semidetached Those look like they’d have the power to turn any vista into an opera, if focused just right.

@lexipenia I don’t think I’ve heard Szeryng before and would like to check out more!

@nicole It is so not a commonly reported side effect that I was tempted for a while to file indifference to video games under “not trans enough,” but really I think I was just following too many Twitch streamers on Twitter.

@lexipenia Oistrakh/Richter if that’s to your taste: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7027n6Duw

@lexipenia L’écriture est bien sûr sur le mur, as Eliza Doolittle didn’t sing

Changing out the rear wheel on an ebike is a grandmaster challenge and I’m no grandmaster, but I succeeded by dint of wearing an impractical dress

@nicole omg you kids!!

@jolibourgeois @nicole More fear-of-trees content for you ⬆️

@vjoshuaadams What did they make of it?

@robhelpychalk Have there actually been five canonical waves, or is the term more of a gesture?

@jolibourgeois What I love about those stories is they can't possibly all be true and they're all equally funny.

@emilyherring I remember the morning the towers came down, the first thing I did after the news sites wouldn't load was go to radiohead.co.uk. I don't know what I thought would be up there, I just had the idea they'd been getting us ready for this and would be able to explain it somehow.