Imbolc\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 Bridgit Moon<\/p>\n
The bubble of calm before the winds begin to blow and the snow to fall.\u00a0 Predictions have increased the amount from 8-10 to 12-18.\u00a0 I’ve never outgrown my joy at a snowfall, so I’m looking forward to this one.<\/p>\n
My plan for the snow is this:\u00a0 Ovid and some reading.\u00a0 I’m translating the story of Diana and Actaeon right now since Titian painted a large canvas on this theme, a painting now in the MIA for three months.<\/p>\n
The reading right now is Empire, a s0-so novel of imperial Rome.\u00a0 I’m sure the idea seemed like a winner when the guy started.\u00a0 Take one non-imperial family and follow them through the years of changing emperors.\u00a0 If the through in were stronger, it might have been strong, but it’s more like a pastiche.\u00a0 He throws in well known stories of this emperor or that, trying to palm them off on the reader as if they were imaginative leaps, but I know too much of the history.\u00a0 The saving grace to the book is that it is a decent survey of the changing fortunes of Rome under emperors from Augustus to Hadrian.\u00a0 So far.\u00a0 I’m almost done and look forward to a new novel written with more narrative flair.<\/p>\n
Can you tell I’m sort of caught up in Rome right now?\u00a0 That’s the way it goes for me.\u00a0 Ancient China.\u00a0 Ancient Egypt.\u00a0 Ancient Celts.\u00a0 Ancient Greece.\u00a0 Ancient Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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