IdyllopusPress Presents

Day: July 17, 2007

  • Some comments on a photo by Eman59

    Originally uploaded by eman59 Eman59 posted a beautiful photo at Flickr (here shown) that I mentioned in the comments reminded me of the Dionysian/Christian story of the release from the prison. He’s unfamiliar with the story and asked me to blog it. In Euripides’ “The Bacchae” (about 410 BCE) we have: Servant: We are come,…

  • Yes, yes, I'm watching C-Span

    I’m sitting here writing and watching the filibuster or procedural block or whatever on C-Span 2 on my computer (don’t have cable). Had been listening to music earlier (yes, Bowie) on the headphones then gone away for a while and returned. So I picked up the headphones before I went to C-Span and put them…