. . . is reading your old college notes. After looking over my book notes from four years at Biola University, I began to wonder why they chose to award me a Bachelor of Arts. So in the interest of personal growth, I’ve decided to post some of my most cringe worthy thoughts as an undergraduate. Enjoy!
Thoughts on Edmund Spenser’s The Fairie Queen
Spenser: “When those accursed messengers of hell, that feigning dreame, and that faire-forged Spright came to their wicked master, and gan tell their booteless paines, and ill succeeding night.”
Me: “What is going on?”
Spenser: “The Sprite then gan more boldly him to wake. . .”
Me: “Are they trying to wake the Knight?”
Spenser: “He bad awake black Plutoes grisly Dame, and cursed heaven, and spake reproachful shame.”
Me: “Wait, is he a bad hermit?”
Spenser: “That I must rue his undeserved wrong: help thou my weak wit, and sharpen my dull tongue.”
Me: “So Homeric!”
Thoughts on Virgil’s The Aenead
Virgil: “It was only a picture, but sighing deeply he let his thoughts feed on it, and his face was wet with a stream of tears.”
Me: “Why are these men always so emotional?”
Thoughts on Homer’s The Odyssey
Homer: “His trustiest weapon women’s twisted wiles.”
Me: “Mortal women are either good or bad.”
Homer: “Under the echoing porch he tethered these, then turned on Odysseus once again with cutting insults, “Still alive? Still hounding your betters, begging round the house?”
Me: “What is this guy’s problem?"
Thoughts on The Works of John Donne
Donne: “When I am dead, and the doctors know not why. . .”
Me: “It is really all that healthy to dwell on things like this?”
Donne: “May he dream treason, and believe, that he meant to perform it, and confess and die.”
Me: “He’s pretty creative in his revenge fantasies.”
Donne: “Twice or thrice had I loved thee, before I knew thy face or name”
Me: “This seems a bit sappy – I like him when he’s being witty.”
Thoughts on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle: “For we should not seek the same degree of exactness in all sorts of arguments alike, any more than in the products of different crafts.”
Me: “Why does he keep bringing up crafts?”
Thoughts on Plato’s Phaedo
Plato: “I think that a man who has truly spent his life in philosophy is probably right to be of good cheer in the face of death.”
Me: “What is so wonderful about philosophy?”
Plato: “Yes, by Zeus, Phaedo, and they were right, I think he made these things wonderfully clear to anyone of even small intelligence.”
Me: “It’s not clear to me.”
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