I have been thinking about reading more poetry recently so when I saw copies of Emily Wilson’s translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey at the bookshop I jumped on them. Of course, as a newbie to poetry this is jumping off of the deep end but also at the same time, these poems are long enough for me to chew on them for a while.
Continue reading “packetcat reads The Iliad: The Quarrel”Review: Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Continue reading “Review: Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt”The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifying normal.
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