tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post3092405609159044812..comments2024-03-28T20:30:48.788+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Departed Worlds??? (2)Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-39537236919566649512020-09-12T06:54:27.646+01:002020-09-12T06:54:27.646+01:00Classicists would be better off honing their prose...Classicists would be better off honing their prose (and verse) composition skills than publishing for the sake of publishing (Tolkien was dead-set against it). I speak as one who, not so very long ago in the scheme of things, even though it was actually decades ago, had to pass Greek compulsory Greek composition with a paper of three hours length requiring a lengthy passage of one of Cicero'Albrecht von Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12996637489269911349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-45720798377308613392020-09-10T05:25:57.845+01:002020-09-10T05:25:57.845+01:00Some kids put out a bardcore Classical Latin versi...Some kids put out a bardcore Classical Latin version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and a fair amount of bardcore is in medieval languages.Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-63757524711729288832020-09-09T12:05:40.538+01:002020-09-09T12:05:40.538+01:00As for composition's being the irrelevant play...As for composition's being the irrelevant playground if a decaying elite, I was interested to read recently an obituary of Donald (DAFM, to use his initials) Russell of St John's, who taught composition. His parents were council school teachers in South London; his father was a pupil teacher in front of a class at fifteen, who later took a London degree as an evening student. So much for PMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144651697262763099noreply@blogger.com