Archive for: November, 2012

Uncategorized November 28, 2012

STURM UND SLOSH

Proud music of the storm! Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops! Wind of the mountains! Personified dim shapes! you hidden orchestras! You serenades of phantoms, with instruments alert, Blending, with Nature’s rhythmus, all the tongues of nations. Walt Whitman It is now less than a week till …

Uncategorized November 10, 2012

MODERN MYTH AND MEMORY

Beautiful as the horses of HippolytusCarven on some antique frieze. Frederic Manning, ‘Transport’, 1917 My Blog this weekend is a film by Kathleen with her accompanying introduction, appropriate to Remembrance Sunday. EP A Trojan four-horse chariot, eastern frieze, Siphnian Treasury, Delphi In January this year I gave a talk at the Sydney Latin Summer School …