Spring Awakening Moon
The weather has turned cooler and the sky gray.
I’m proud to report that I have almost completed translating my first four lines of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Of course, there are thousands of lines in the complete work and my translation is far from poetic, but this journey is underway. When I feel a bit more comfortable with it, I’ll post it. In fact, I’ll post the whole thing in progress on its own page.
Today is the birthday of cybermage, William Schmidt, ex-Jesuit and sheepshead connoisseur, a combination of attributes that makes him in turn interesting, resourceful and a card shark.
For Mammoths reading this, I have added the Wandervogel entry to my webpage about Nick.
(Pygmalion by Gerome)
Among other top news items today: Madonna laid a brick (in an African orphanage) and McNabb held up a Redskins jersey while Tiger was honest in a press conference and earned credit for it. Meanwhile back in the real world health care reform continues to make news as does a 7.2 earthquake that struck southern California and drug cartels to the south.
I think I’m gonna go back to the first decade of the first millennium, no madonna there. Well, ok. The Madonna, but you know what I mean.