Saturday, October 23, 2004
in honor of our thucydides colloquium earlier today, i shall post a flashback from march 29, 2004, from this very blog:
speaking of gil prose, he said a couple of memorable things today. in discussing our assignment for next week, he said, 'those of you who have not read Thucydides will find it jarringly unpleasant'. indeed. but the fun has not even begun yet. later in class, when musing upon conditional sentences, a student tried to point out that he thought a certain construction might be a future-less-vivid condition. gil did not quite hear him, and after a moment he returned to himself from the whimsy of greek grammar. he apologized and said, 'i was kind of still grooving on future-more-vivid'. you might not have know that you can 'groove' on greek conditionals, but you can. it's a lot like listening to otis redding. finally, my roman satire professor made passing reference to a 'gratuitous flock of eunuchs' in a letter of jerome. i am certain that i do not need to explain why this is funny. again, think about it. and again, if that doesn't work, continue to smack yourself, this time with your roommate's dirty underwear.
