(Port) Coquitlam Odysseus

Where Aristophanes’ Acharnians was somewhat boring, and his Knights was somewhat less so, Clouds was enjoyable. Aristophanes’ Wasps has characterization that is better than Clouds, and no “stale jeering at Euripides”–or Socrates, for that matter. (There is still stale jeering at Cleon, though.) The play itself is humorous call for the Athenians of the day [...]

In 1862, Ivan Turgenev published his most famous work, Fathers and Sons. This book depicted lives of a few nihilistic would-be revolutionaries; it ended on a note of love and redemption. Essentially, Turgenev appears to be saying, give the young nihilists a bit of lovin’, and they’ll be fine. In response, Turgenev’s more famous compatriot [...]

I just finished re-reading, for the umpteenth time, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I read the trilogy in six days, using almost every minute of my long commute each way, each day, in addition to staying up later than I would normally. I’ve always enjoyed both the trilogy and The Hobbit, and [...]

It’s impossible to discuss Aristophanes’ Knights, with all of its food and explicit homosexual humour, without becoming X-, or at least R-rated; click below for the post.