Monday, August 06, 2012
The Wobbly Weakness of My Graeco-Latin Mind
Letter from Stephen MacKenna to Robert MacKenna (Sept. 10?, 1923), in Journal and Letters of Stephen MacKenna, ed. E.R. Dodds (London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1936) pp. 187-188 (at 187):
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Myself I like of course to possess completes, and I think I have every Greek and Latin author so; but I have a great desire too for pocket, tram-car, hedge-side, pack-in-your-week-end-valise separates—one play, one dialogue, one chunk, with notes. I like the elaboratest and childishest notes—I can skip what I don't need; and such is the wobbly weakness of my Graeco-Latin mind that I often find myself referring with zest to some note which many times before I had disdained and not needed: I am capable of forgetting the imperfect of τύπτω or the ablative of munus...
