I'm still feeling pretty lazy around here, so here's a little round-up for you ...

• Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.
• Ron Rosenbaum on what William Shakespeare, Vladimir Nabokov, and Bob Dylan each have in common.
• Chris Offutt decodes some common literary terms.
• Ladies: would you actually wear a fragrance called "In the Library"? (Aside: doing what in the library? Not reading, surely ...)
• Searching for the truth behind Homer's epic poems: "But thanks to evidence from a range of disciplines, we are in the middle of a massive reappraisal of these foundational works of Western literature. Recent advances in archeology and linguistics offer the strongest support yet that the Trojan War did take place, with evidence coming from the large excavation at the likely site of Troy, as well as new analysis of cuneiform tablets from the dominant empire of the region. Insights from comparative anthropology have transformed studies of the society that created the poems and allowed us to analyze the epics in a new way, suggesting that their particular patterns of violence contain a hidden key to ancient Greek history--though not necessarily the key that Homer's readers once thought they were being given."

Comments

[Stefanie]

I would so totally wear in the library if someone bought it for me. On my own I could never fork out $125 + for it.

[Brandon]

Well, well. Then I suggest you save the link to your bookmarks and "accidentally" leave the page on the screen for your husband to see. The holidays are almost upon us ...