What's up with Roman Graffiti?
Digging through my old posts. Fixing the bad grammar, the subpar writing, the unnecessarily flowery language that makes my cringe. Always revise your work, writers.
What am I currently reading?
I'm currently ackling three books at once. First, Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carlson. A stunningly tender essay about love and its less welcomed counterpart, hatred. Secondly, Apuleius's The Golden Ass. A classical fairytale classic. I'm on my second reread of it. Finally, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami. While not a text related to the classics per se, a book which delves into Freudian themes of double consciousness. A mind-boggling book about humanity, the senses, and unicorns.
My recs~
My must reads. Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud. Catullus's poems. Martial's Epigrams. Metamorphoses, Ovid (not Franz Kafka). Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (a different Kafka). Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin. Carceral Capitalism, Jackie Wang.
