By: Michael Busch
@Amethyst: The double entendres were the most interesting part of reading Shakespeare in junior and high school, at least for me. By that point, I already knew the plots of the most popular plays, so...
View ArticleBy: Christine
Reading the comments about the majority of people being working-class, I was reminded of the observation that “people from an egalitarian society can fit in just fine in an aristocratic one, as long as...
View ArticleBy: L'Ann
I agree, part of the issue and pick -n- choose, but sometimes there is a fabrication to make what never was. I’m an historian, and it never ceases to amaze and sadden me how some students come in...
View ArticleBy: Terra
As a Latin teacher, I appreciate the defence of my subject. Any area of learning can be an opportunity for increasing empathy and expanding understanding. And Latin provides students and teachers with...
View ArticleBy: Bix
No, she wasn’t adopted. I would understand it better if it was an academic interest, but I think it’s really nostalgia. I found it baffling.
View ArticleBy: not a gator
Sound’s like Cordelia in Bujold’s Shards of Honor/Cordelia’s Honor. Well worth the read!
View ArticleBy: brightie
I found Nesbit through C.S. Lewis, actually… there was a reference at the beginning of The Magician’s Nephew.
View ArticleBy: Whit
Not to put too fine a point on it, but that Belle Époque geography book would have abruptly gone out of date in 1914. Something called “the great war”.
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