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I made a small poster tonight and matted and framed it, as well. It features one of my favorite phrases:
It’s from Horace’s Odes and it translates as “Now is the time for drinking”. As in, “eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” As in, get up out of your seat and do all the things you want to do!
I also made a companion poster which shows the proper response to “Nunc est bibendum”:
It means “neither delay nor rest”, also saying, “Fool, get started now!”
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My books.
I was going to write something to go along with this, but didn’t have time to write something good, so here goes. These are works of art that I have produced over the course of months or, in some cases, years. Each was the product of love, work, and personal growth.
The New College Latin & English Dictionary. Used nearly every day for two semesters.
The Selected Poetry of Lord Byron. Purchased when I was 16 or 17.
The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 1509-1659. Used for only one class, one semester, but this book was loved and it shows.
The Poetry of Our World, an anthology of modern world poetry. Purchased this when I was 16. It introduced me to Elizabeth Bishop, Zbiegniew Herbert, Philip Larkin, Anna Akhmatova, Paul Celan, Shuntaro Tanikawa, and others.
John Clare Selected Poems. This is the first book of John Clare that I bought. It sat on my shelf unread for at least a year, and then, when I picked it up and read it, my life changed.
John Clare Major Works. My main workhorse during the year in which I wrote my thesis on John Clare.
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