Saturday, June 16, 2007

Intensive Latin

To be a Renaissance scholar of any sort, one needs to have a grasp of the Latin that the Humanists so loved. I have thus put my dissertation research on the back burner (stirring the pot every couple of days by checking out a new book, but not thinking much about it), and sold the soul of my summer to intensive Latin. The teacher is excellent, and though after the first week I thought I had truly met my match, the second week things have begun to sink in. I am slowly recovering from the phobia of grammar I've had since I was nine, and can now look the pluperfect subjunctive and past perfect participles in the eye.

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