I’ve been settling down into my new home and program. The dog had to go back home in December, which makes me sad. I’m hoping that I can have him back at some point, but now is not that point.
In semi-classical news, a U Chicago professor’s son is charged with identity theft after he impersonated several other leading experts in his father’s field in order to advance his father’s ideas regarding the Dead Sea Scrolls. This came across via the Reuters article, but a bit of Googling found me this wrap-up, to which I shamelessly link, with appreciation.
This is one of those things that I’d like to cast as a cautionary tale, but simply cannot understand why anyone would think that this was a good idea. We should not need cautionary tales about things like this.
In happier news, I saw the new Watchmen movie last night at a midnight show, and was very very pleased. The end reminded me very powerfully of the end of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis, when Hyllos says,
μεγάλους μὲν ἰδοῦσα νέους θανάτους,
πολλὰ δὲ πήματα καὶ καινοπαθῆ,
κοὐδὲν τούτων ὅ τι μὴ Ζεύς.
You have seen great and grievous sights,
and many calamaties hitherto unheard-of,
but there is not one of these things that is not Zeus.
