Tag: Horace
A search for previous mentions of Alexandre Borovik in this journal (see previous entry) yields the following– In Roger Rosenblatt's academic novel Beet, committee members propose their personal…
Magical Thinking for Joan Didion on Her Birthday The Associated Press on the Kennedy Center honors yesterday: "Dancer Suzanne Farrell was feted by her former colleague at…
Readings for St. Patrick's Day Books: Finnegans Wake (1939) Gravity's Rainbow (1978) Masks of the Illuminati (1981) Quotations: "Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation….
Aes Triplex The title, from a Robert Louis Stevenson essay, means “triple brass” (or triple bronze): From the admirable site of J. Nathan Matias: “Aes Triplex means Triple…
Balanchine's Birthday Today seems an appropriate day to celebrate Apollo and the nine Muses. From a website on Balanchine's and Stravinsky's ballet, "Apollon Musagete": In his Poetics of…
To Apollo On this date in 28 B.C. the Temple of Apollo was dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome. Horace, Odes, XXXI Frui paratis et valido…