> I have been listening to a lecture series on Homer. Leland, Is the lecture from The Teaching Company? I've subscribed to Audible.com and have been downloading audio books and burning them on CD to play in the car. So far, Ken Burn's Mark Twain, Bob Woodward's Bush at War, and then onto Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer. They seem to have enough of an eclectic selection of titles to keep me from gagging. I'll see if there is a Homer there, though my reading of Homer is mainly splatters of the Chapman translation, a favorite of Ezra Pound. The English language of the translation is really fine and musical in it's own right. I don't get very far in the reading as my imagination gets sparked and I run off to writing. My brother-in-law, the physicist, was working on learning Latin for his Plutarch, a hobby akin to his occasional model boat building, and now is taking Greek classes. A quite balanced guy he also rides his bicycle to work. I like listening to Anglo Saxon, but have not in quite some time. It has taken me too damned long to write a sentence that a few people can understand that I try not to drown in the pure sound of language. I've spent a good deal of time paying attention to language at the semi-dream level, or language as communication to the unseen world. I am fascinated by the infinite space between sleeping and awake. If I ever get my act together I'm going down to the Monroe Institute and do some deep diving. ][<en Nz^)^ޱjبkjexjj'Zڞw(}?܅zb m-grzۺYZwbvj?