Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Honey Extraction Moon<\/p>\n
Been feelin’ tired, a bit lowdown.\u00a0 Got a good nap this afternoon and better.<\/p>\n
Latin today was a bit more encouraging than I had anticipated.\u00a0 My translation was not so far off, I hadn’t pursued sentence and clause construction quite as diligently as would have been good, but I had the right idea, for the most part.\u00a0 I now see another level to this translation process and that is the one where I set off on my own, with no expectation that a tutor will read it.\u00a0 Instead, I will rely on my own knowledge and skill.\u00a0 That day is off a ways, but no where near so far as it was a year ago March when I began this journey.<\/p>\n
Greg and I had a conversation today about the classics, about language and books and translation and interpretation.\u00a0 Exegesis and hermeneutics.\u00a0 This is turf\u00a0 I know well from my days in Sem.\u00a0 I persist in believing that there is a history and an author to which texts refer and are bound.\u00a0 Surprisingly, this belief is not widely shared among academics in literary fields.\u00a0 They’ve ridden off on the horse of post-modernism, headed, with speed, down what Francis Bacon would have called the wrong path, a path not unlike the Scholastics, where all knowledge happens within a field of words and all conclusions come from deductive reasoning.<\/p>\n
Bacon said traveling down the wrong path will not lead your toward your destination and traveling faster down that path only leads you further and further away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Honey Extraction Moon Been feelin’ tired, a bit lowdown.\u00a0 Got a good nap this afternoon and better. Latin today was a bit more encouraging than I had anticipated.\u00a0 My translation was not so far off, I hadn’t pursued sentence and clause construction quite as diligently as would have been good, but I had … Continue reading Text, Reader, Learning<\/span>