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hawkwing_lbProgress notes for 24 June 2006:
"Untitled #3" aka the very strange angel story
New Words: 564
Total Words: 1948
Darling du jour: N/A
Reason for stopping: Ur. Must think about what comes next.
Books in progress: Robert Gildea, Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France during the German Occupation; Jo Walton, The King’s Peace; Thucydides, A History of the Peloponnesian War.
Exercise: Running
Thucydides likes speechifying. By which I mean, recounting various speeches made by Spartans, Athenians, Corinthians etc. at various points. Other than that, it’s quite fascinating. I know I was supposed to study this last year, but I never had quite so clear a grip on the causes of the Peloponnesian War until I read Thucydides’ account of the dispute over Potidaea and the Corinthians’ gripes against Athens arising from Athenian high-handedness.
Also, nothing really changes:
"To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change their usual meanings. What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member; to think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just an attempt to disguise one’s unmanly character; ability to understand a question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action." (III, 82)
I survived my early shift. Tomorrow I have the 1300 to midnight one. Urgh, argh, ugh. If I'm not replying to e-mail or comments it's because my brain has turned to grey yoghurt and dribbled out my ears.
"Untitled #3" aka the very strange angel story
New Words: 564
Total Words: 1948
Darling du jour: N/A
Reason for stopping: Ur. Must think about what comes next.
Books in progress: Robert Gildea, Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France during the German Occupation; Jo Walton, The King’s Peace; Thucydides, A History of the Peloponnesian War.
Exercise: Running
Thucydides likes speechifying. By which I mean, recounting various speeches made by Spartans, Athenians, Corinthians etc. at various points. Other than that, it’s quite fascinating. I know I was supposed to study this last year, but I never had quite so clear a grip on the causes of the Peloponnesian War until I read Thucydides’ account of the dispute over Potidaea and the Corinthians’ gripes against Athens arising from Athenian high-handedness.
Also, nothing really changes:
"To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change their usual meanings. What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member; to think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just an attempt to disguise one’s unmanly character; ability to understand a question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action." (III, 82)
I survived my early shift. Tomorrow I have the 1300 to midnight one. Urgh, argh, ugh. If I'm not replying to e-mail or comments it's because my brain has turned to grey yoghurt and dribbled out my ears.
