I have my nose in all your books and look forward to moving from Aslan to the Discarded Image and back again this year, but I read something someone else read in Anne and Martin Kilmer's letters. It is a bit odd to be reading those, but particular wisdom comes from being particular people.
You wrote him that having Latin was a great advantage and you were delighted he had got it.
How does one get it?
At this point, I'm afraid I'm inoculated against it. Four or five years in early school, a bit again in college, and then, I taught it.
I can conjugate and decline roughly, and read textbook sentences. I'm comfortable reading a text, but I can not comprehend it.
I would like to read Virgil in his own words, or Boethius. I would like to have my brain reshaped by language.
Mr Wheelock says Latin is good for shell shock, which isn't my problem, but I would like to be less modern, to have less of a reservoir system of language and more of a lakebed.
Is this where to start?
Mrs Myers
P.S. Did you know that the Brittanica boys didn't put Boethius in their 5 ft shelf of classics? Maybe they were saying he didn't shape us enough, but it seems an oversight.
P.P.S. I began Mr Williams books this week. He is like staring into the eyes of a wild man.
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