Nat Tabris
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Software Engineer @CoiledHQ. Philosophy PhD @Princeton.
Denver, CO
Joined April 2008
“Best” is such a bold claim, but I wouldn't argue with it here. It's such a great read, and it's also doing really interesting things with the idea of (re-)enchantment.
Someone said, “You never post about books you enjoy” (??) so here’s one. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is unique among fantasies for the richness of its characters and its eerie, mysterious magic with roots in old folklore. Without doubt the best book written since 2000.
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Yet one more reason more people should read Trollope. Barchester Towers is filled with high churchmen in the older sense, and they bring in an Anglo-Catholic (reminiscent of Keble) to help oppose the low church bishop.
A hill I will die on is that 'high church' and 'Anglo-Catholic' are absolutely *not* synonyms. Indeed, Anglo-Catholic notions that the CofE is somehow a branch of the RC Church are utterly antithetical to high church Anglicanism
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This forthcoming volume looks lovely! (I haven't read Palamas but intend to... probably sometime after I get through reading Maximos' Ambigua with @NZaidka et al)
🎉 On the feast of St. Gregory Palamas: The Triads by St. Gregory Palamas, trans. Alexander Titus, is now available for pre-order! 📖✨ The inaugural volume of the Popular Patristics Series: Longer Works—fresh translation + original Greek. 👉 Pre-order: https://t.co/8S7zlUWLuH
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Good advice! On reading with others: I’m currently going through Homer with a @CatherineProj group for the second time this year and each discussion I’m noticing new aspects of the text.
Reading and Teaching Homer: Some practical advice https://t.co/qEjU8hYeNa
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Lewis is also against teaching contemporary lit at university (from p. 91). This essay has a lot that I don't agree with!
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From p. 89. Part of the context is that Lewis contrasts “education” which is essentially a kind of *formation* led by teacher and “learning” which is an activity for people who have already been formed by education and is more guided by your own engagement with reality.
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More CS Lewis against a curated great books education for university students, from “Our English Syllabus” (Rehabilitations, pp. 87–8).
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C.S. Lewis (if I'm reading him correctly) against college “great books” programs...
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In the fall, I’m grateful for how easy it is to get up early, and for the early light as the sun rises. In the spring, I’m grateful for the late evenings and late sunsets. Let the reader understand.
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One thing I love about English literature is the way it's permeated by the foreign: Beowolf and Bede, the legends of Arthur, so much of the golden literature of the English Renaissance, and especially the English Bible and Prayerbook.
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Oh dear. I know people raised concerns about Wilson's translation but it's shocking to see pepnumenon then become “Telemachus insisted, breathing hard” at 2.129. She really doesn't like this guy!
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At 1.361 when Pen. is struck by the muthon pepnumonen which T. has spoken to her, “sullen” doesn't seem to fit at all, and Wilson here says Pen. wonders at the “deliberate scolding”! That's a pretty heavy handed translation.
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I'm v. surprised to see Wilson render pepnumenos (epithet of Telemachos) as “sullen” (vs “wise” in Murray and “thoughtful” in Lattimore).
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Unhappy people at first seem to have interesting and distinct lives, and happy people to have boring lives, but in fact this is (on my reading) shown to be wrong.
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Like Austin, Tolstoy regularly employs double voicing—having the narrative itself adopt the perspective of one of the characters. So it seems like a move he could be making here. I also think the novel itself argues against this sentence…
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I'm inclined to read the opening sentence of Anna Karenina (“Every happy family…”) not as Tolstoy expressing his own view, just as I don't read Austen as endorsing the “Truth universally acknowledged”. How do others read Tolstoy here?
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Anyone recommend a translation of Gregory of Nazianzus’ theological orations that’s good for close reading? I’m esp curious how the CUA ed compares with the SVS.
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