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Some People Need Killin’
If you’ve followed along with the reading schedule posted here for the last two months, congratulations are in order. You’ve already read over 700 pages of world-class literature and, no doubt, have expanded your horizons by considering questions and problems … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Liberal Arts
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Cicero, Edward Kasner, Francis Bacon, Great Books, Homer, Pliny the Younger
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Radioactive Shrews and BFF’s
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! I expect most of you gentlemen are wooing more like Lucentio than Petruchio; I hope you ladies are receiving your gentleman’s attentions more like Bianca than Katharina! Here are the readings for the upcoming week: “Mowgli’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Cicero, Curie, Dantzig, French Revolution, Great Books, Haldane, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Plato, Plutarch, Rudyard Kipling, Shakespeare, Tacitus
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Throwing Ralph Waldo Emerson into a Volcano
It’s Great Books Monday; are you ready for the Bard? Here are the reading selections for the coming week: The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (GBWW Vol. 24, pp. 199-228) “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of … Continue reading