Returning to Athens...

[katsaris]

Utterly annoying when I lose a long post -- especially when it's my first post after quite a while....

Here's the abbreviated version of the post I lost: Tomorrow I'm leaving Samos and returning to Athens for a week or so of leave... Will be going by ship so it'll be a 12-hour journey.

Am not sure what my level of internet access will be in Athens -- but I'll probably get the chance to post more, since I'll have free time enough to *write* more. Also many apologies to my friends for not maintaining more regular communications while here in Samos -- to my defense, Internet access here has been less available than I'd have liked and otherwise problematic...

More things concerning books I recently read and such will have to wait for another post: Too tired right now to rewrite them.

Comments

With it or on it, old chap

[bellatrys.livejournal.com]

Good to hear you're still causing trouble - haven't fallen foul of any one-eyed shepherds, ketoi, or mysterious women with golden voices on rocky beaches yet, I see.

And yes, losing a post has little to recommend it. There's always that sinking feeling when I'm linkhunting and the cursor freezes and I realize that I've just opened a page with screwy javascript or an embedded bit of A/V, and I pray that it won't lockup pleasepleaseplease and wonder when the last time I saved was (oh shit) and sometimes if I just wait patiently it comes back...

...but usually it doesn't.

Re: With it or on it, old chap

[katsaris.livejournal.com]

*g* Nice synchronicity there with that title, given how I only recently read "Gates of FIre" by Steven Pressfield, which concerns the battle of Thermopylae. Good book.

Am sorry I couldn't or didn't post more. I have been following your posts and reading them closely -- atleast those ones that don't involve US affairs that are too internal to the USA for me to have heard of or to understand. :-)

Anyway, you are a constant source of education to me -- actually just recently I got the chance to quote *here* a piece of that Roper/More exchange which I first read in your journal.

*g* Just thought to get the chance here to state my continuing appreciation for you.

And they say there's no such thing as coincidence

[bellatrys.livejournal.com]

I've meant to read that for a long time, Pressfield has gotten highly recc'd on several occasions by different people to me, I just keep forgetting to pick up a copy.

Am sorry I couldn't or didn't post more. I have been following your posts and reading them closely -- atleast those ones that don't involve US affairs that are too internal to the USA for me to have heard of or to understand. :-)

We will be very glad when you are free again to have your time your own and chip in ad libertum (I felt rather wistful the other day as I hunted up the true word translated as "piety" in the Dialogues, knowing that you weren't available to a) bug for it, b) correct the form of it gotten from the dictionary.)

Thanks and congrats for fighting the good fight against the brainwashed Dunlendings out there - you're one of our most valued associates, and we look forward to more of your insightful and entertaining conversation!