He does have a way with words, doesn't he? Hehe. Yes. Yes, he does. I just read Moab is my Washpot again and truly, the man's ability to use clever puns and lapses into metaphors never ceases to amaze me. There's some talk about metre and poetic rhythm in it as well, which I loved. As a true classicist, I spent my teenage years rewriting sentences according to metre, like this: _vv/_vv/_vv//_v (and so on) and declaring them loudly. Yes, I was a huge dork... Anyway! Planning to re-read the Stars' Tennis Balls and The Liar again soon, but the poetry book will follow eventually ;).
I read De Oratore in Latin when I was 17. Latin rhetoric was never really my thing, and it was only made worse by Cicero's tendency to write sentences that span an average of 20 lines (bastard!). Demosthenes was much more up my alley. Please tell me the translation has a normal-sized sentence structure? ;)
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Hehe. Yes. Yes, he does. I just read Moab is my Washpot again and truly, the man's ability to use clever puns and lapses into metaphors never ceases to amaze me. There's some talk about metre and poetic rhythm in it as well, which I loved. As a true classicist, I spent my teenage years rewriting sentences according to metre, like this: _vv/_vv/_vv//_v (and so on) and declaring them loudly. Yes, I was a huge dork...
Anyway! Planning to re-read the Stars' Tennis Balls and The Liar again soon, but the poetry book will follow eventually ;).
I read De Oratore in Latin when I was 17. Latin rhetoric was never really my thing, and it was only made worse by Cicero's tendency to write sentences that span an average of 20 lines (bastard!). Demosthenes was much more up my alley. Please tell me the translation has a normal-sized sentence structure? ;)