I shall not make it soft for you
Mar. 3rd, 2010 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aamcnamaraHaving finished all of my midterm obligations, what I have done today, apart from "go to class" and "work":
- read Chill
- sent one (1) summer-stuff-related email
- picked up one (1) letter of reference to send to physics REU
- made one (1) to-do list
- read eight hundred (800) lines of Agamemnon aloud
...that looks like a day off, except for the Agamemnon part. I really like the translation that we're using--Greene and Lattimore--it has a nice poetic tendency. Hence me reading the whole thing out loud. Like Shakespeare, it parses better that way.
The plot's all coils of gender relations and familial murders and vengeance, and I like it. I like Clytemaestra, who seems thoroughly underestimated by the Chorus--well, by everyone. I don't like Aegisthus, who is a smug and violent creep. I love that Agamemnon contains enough knots of theme, of character, of imagery, of emotion and resonance, that I suspect you could spend a lifetime unpicking them and end up with a lap draped full of strings tugging you off in new directions.
(Is "I would like to see what Agamemnon is like in the original" sufficient reason to learn ancient Greek? Not that I didn't want to before, that's been my plan all year, but still.)
Today's work discovery: a folder in the "Administrative Offices" section labeled "Master Plan Office". No, really. Disappointingly, it contains only two memos--no copy of said Master Plan whatsoever. I believe that this can only mean the Master Plan is so secret that the Archives do not know about it. I await further developments.
- read Chill
- sent one (1) summer-stuff-related email
- picked up one (1) letter of reference to send to physics REU
- made one (1) to-do list
- read eight hundred (800) lines of Agamemnon aloud
...that looks like a day off, except for the Agamemnon part. I really like the translation that we're using--Greene and Lattimore--it has a nice poetic tendency. Hence me reading the whole thing out loud. Like Shakespeare, it parses better that way.
The plot's all coils of gender relations and familial murders and vengeance, and I like it. I like Clytemaestra, who seems thoroughly underestimated by the Chorus--well, by everyone. I don't like Aegisthus, who is a smug and violent creep. I love that Agamemnon contains enough knots of theme, of character, of imagery, of emotion and resonance, that I suspect you could spend a lifetime unpicking them and end up with a lap draped full of strings tugging you off in new directions.
(Is "I would like to see what Agamemnon is like in the original" sufficient reason to learn ancient Greek? Not that I didn't want to before, that's been my plan all year, but still.)
Today's work discovery: a folder in the "Administrative Offices" section labeled "Master Plan Office". No, really. Disappointingly, it contains only two memos--no copy of said Master Plan whatsoever. I believe that this can only mean the Master Plan is so secret that the Archives do not know about it. I await further developments.