B. Daniel Blatt 🧙‍♂️ 🇺🇸

Writer, Man of Ideas. Tolkien geek. Cincinnati native, Williams graduate, U-VA JD, PhD in Mythology

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@Boston_2019_ @theobjectivist I did notice that. Is he trying to erase gay men?

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@BasedDostoevski Debating whether to read it in English or en Français…

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@realDavidBJr I still have a set of the collected works of George Eliot I bought at a used bookstore in DC in the late 1990s

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@JMWSPT Weird reading this just moments after giving away two big volumes (in French)of Rousseau

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@Titus_Dungheap @RachelXReads Such a fun chapter!!!

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Food for thought:

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

One reason classical education produces more mature young people is because it introduces them to greatness early.

Students spend years around saints, philosophers, statesmen, poets, generals, and missionaries.

They grow up reading about courage, sacrifice, honor, discipline, truth.

Modern education tries to protect students from greatness because greatness creates objective standards. But young people desperately want standards.

They want something higher than themselves to admire and live up to.

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@Titus_Dungheap @RachelXReads I am reading the Grossman translation. How far along are you?

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@RachelXReads Yes, Milton and Shakespeare too! Will be reading Moby-Dick next... and anticipating the abundance of classical and biblical references.... as per a post to which yours is linked... from the very third word.

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@LelynRMasters I agree! I recall reading it as I worked on my dissertation.

It sits proudly on my classics shelf.

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@MTClassical This Xenophon has been on to-read list for the longest time. Thanks for the reminder. I'm going to move it up.....

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@MeghanMcCain May his memory be a blessing.

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@RiesbeckAudrey Such a great collection.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Reading the favorite books of your favorite authors is the quickest path to becoming well-read. As a teen I set out to read the works that inspired Lewis & Tolkien, which is how I fell in love with The Faerie Queene, the Arabian Nights, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight and a dozen others. As an artist you have a sacred mission to pass down works you love that are in danger of being forgotten, keeping them alive for the next generation. This is how the great tradition is handed on from one age to the next.

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@DaveRuffle Free markets, yes, please!

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@BenMyersPoet What a great book… & a delightful read.

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@DanielCowper You are not alone. I found it a real delight.

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@JoshuaClaybourn I may have to preorder that.

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@benryanwriter Such a good movie, Moonstruck is

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@ulfketill Glad to see Burkert in the pile.