ΛορδΧηαος

For some hidden Freudian reason, almost all beginner’s Latin books begin with vocabularies of “farmers”, “daughters”, “sailors”, and several seemingly innocent verbs describing various things these nouns can do to each other. Throughout the years, countless British school boys have probably been secretly making up adolescent fantasies from those memorable passages containing these beginner’s vocaburaries, not knowing the true historical account of these events.

Now, finally, a Latin book tells you what really went on between the farmers’ daugheters and the sailors: ……(read more)

This is the first post since I switched from Blogger to Wordpress. I had wanted to write a little something detailing my customization efforts with Wordpress using PHP and MySQL. I managed to put together my own multi-lingual theme (in case you haven’t noticed, the sidebar is fixed in Latin while the interface of a post will automatically match the language of the post), which was fun, and might be instructive to someone who is also trying to learn how to customize Wordpress……but alas I am not going to write about it now. Perhaps some other time.

What I want to write about, actually, is the mind ……(read more)