seanessay.com Here is a clip from an awesome piece about The Odyssey by Victor Hanson Davis, of Stanford University, in the Calgary Sun, January 9, 2021 … we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture… Our current cultural crisis is not from reading too much, but from not reading much of anything at all. Most of […]
Moved to Pity by reading Circe
seanessay.com Today I am moved because I finished the excellent novel Circe, (Pronounced ‘sur see’, accent on first syllable, I looked it up) about the island witch who turned the companions of Odysseus into pigs. It is selling quietly and well, translated into 25 languages. I suppose I can leave out telling you the book […]