I'm taking a class on Homer this fall, and every time I open The Iliad I think of this quote from Virginia Woolf on my potential comprehension of translated Greek literature:
"For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek, since in our ignorance we should be at the bottom of any class of schoolboys, since we do not know how the words sounded, or where precisely we ought to laugh, or how the actors acted, and between this foreign people and ourselves there is not only difference of race and tongue but a tremendous breach of tradition. All the more strange, then, is it that we should wish to know Greek, try to know Greek, feel for ever drawn back to Greek, and be for ever making up some notion of the meaning of Greek, though from what incongruous odds and ends, with what slight resemblance to the real meaning of Greek, who shall say?"- The Common Reader
If you got through that quote, good for you. If not, just take from it that my studying Greek translated into English is already highly questionable, so I wonder why I do it.
While I was studying I ran into Patrick. Great guy.
After skating I stopped by The Shop on my way to the Lil Wayne concert. Tony and Whitney were working on editing the video. I'm very excited about this, things are looking good.
But, I ended up running into my friend Roscoe at the merchandise booth, so I hung out with him and his friends for the whole show.
Keri Hilson opened up. Don't know anything about her.
He killed it. Best rapper alive!
