"Each of us must find wisdom in his own way. Mine is one way, yours another. Perhaps we each need more of what the other knows."

. . . The Lonely Men

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Arkansas Toothpick Member since 11-2-12 984 posts 07-13-21, 06:51 PM (Pacific Time)   "Plutarch and LL"      Seems LL was an admirer of Plutarch, more than a few times favorably mentioned in his books. In Plutarch’s “Lives” and “Moralia”, one has to be highly educated in humanities, philosophy, history to read Plutarch. His writings won’t give an education unless a person has a high-level one to begin with. What do you suppose was LL’s fascination here?   Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Les Down Under Member since 1-2-11 1660 posts 07-15-21, 09:16 PM (Pacific Time)   1. "RE: Plutarch and LL" In response to message #0      Hey AT long time no see. Welcome back. Les The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.   Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Arkansas Toothpick Member since 11-2-12 984 posts 07-16-21, 01:32 PM (Pacific Time)   2. "RE: Plutarch and LL" In response to message #1      Hi Les. Yep, got time on my hands again. Doin well here. Raisin hosses and dogs. Readin LL o/c, and others….Will James, Ben Green, Walt Coburn. You ok? What are your thoughts on Plutarch?   Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Les Down Under Member since 1-2-11 1660 posts 07-20-21, 08:29 PM (Pacific Time)   4. "RE: Plutarch and LL" In response to message #2      Doing well, about to get my second Covid Shot this weekend(Phizer) and the majority of feedback I have heard is that it is the second shot that you may react to. We'll see this coming Monday Keeping busy with the odd Employment Relations / Disciplinary Investigation and ruminating over the postponed trip up your way. Looks like it'll now be a 75th birthday present from me to me in 2024. I have a copy of Plutarch but have only read a couple of his comparative stories. It's one of three LL related books that I have the others being Sun Tzu Art of War and Rienzi, The Last Roman Tribune that I haven't got into yet. Doing loads of LL collecting and am waiting on the last two calendars to arrive in the next couple of days as they will complete the LL calendar set. Stay Safe. Les The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.   Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

john555 Member since 8-13-19 80 posts 07-19-21, 11:20 AM (Pacific Time)   3. "RE: Plutarch and LL" In response to message #0      With all due respect, he never said it was an easy read. I had a copy that I carried around for over 20 years without ever really getting into it. I carried it because I had read so many times where LL referred to it. But I sold it to a half-price book store about a year ago. But, after reading your post, I thought I would take another look. I skipped over the prefaces and the Life of Plutarch. I started with the Life of Theseus and found myself chuckling in paragraph VIII. Seems that Theseus took on a tough guy named Sinis the Pine-Bender who he killed. Sinis had a beautiful daughter named Perigoune who tried to flee from Theseus and hid in a place of wild asparagus begging the plants to hide her. Theseus called to her pledging to take care of her and do her no harm. She came out and afterwards born him a son. Later, Theseus gave her away in marriage to some other guy. So much for caring and doing no harm. Justintime   Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top