dreaming of a better dream to come

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Thanks to jujutsu last night, today I'm walking - and thinking - rather more like a slow zombie than I'd prefer.

The prices we pay to have fun.

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I have a paper to write for a conference - my first. With any luck, it will be a coherent treatment of entrances and the creation of ritual bodies at the Asklepieia Pergamon and Kos. We'll see. I have a lot more reading ahead of me.

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I avoided phenomenology when I was a theology student. So why is it now, as a classics postgrad, it turns out to be actually rather necessary?

κακοφραδής εστιν ὁ θεός, is all I have to say.

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It turns out that, contrary to my projections, I can't afford to get myself a copy of The White City this month. Hopefully there will still be copies around in April. If not, well, that's how the dice falls, I suppose.

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And now I must go stare at my Greek translations with the utmost reluctance. Oh, Neaira. Apollodoros really didn't like your boyfriend, did he?