If they find the bodies in the basement

[sovay]

Because grailquestion gave me one of the most beautiful quotations I have ever heard:

If you leave comment requesting a quick analysis, then I will respond to you about the following . . .

1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must can post this on your journal so you can do the same for other people.

Comments

[larryhammer]

I find the Fasti more interesting in concept than on the page. I'm pretty sure I've read all of it, but not all the way through. I should try again Real Soon Now. Maybe if Peter Green did it. (Though, what I want from him is a Metamorphoses.)

BTW, did you hear that A.E. Stallings has a translation of Lucretius coming out next year?

---L.

[sovay]

Maybe if Peter Green did it.

I just read his Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto on the train up from New Haven. I liked very much.

[larryhammer]

YES. Brilliant work, those. Ditto his version of the amatory poems.

I need to get his Catullus.

---L.

[sovay]

I need to get his Catullus.

I don't remember loving his Catullus. This may be partially because I don't really like anyone's translation of Catullus—he's like Sappho; I prefer him so much more in the original—but even so, Peter Green did not make my heart flutter. Which his Poems of Exile did, for whatever that's worth.

[larryhammer]

Hmm. Maybe library first, then.

---L.