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October 02, 2024

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Always impressed by your yearly reading lists, Beth, and undoubtedly a reading group provides a structure and focus (and variety) that could otherwise be missing. I've read 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad' in the past few years by reading just six pages every morning over breakfast.
To recommend Alan Jacobs 'The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction' which I've just finished rereading and speaks very much to your thread of thought. It's from 2011 which feels like an impossibly innocent and undistracted time compared to 2024! Jacobs is a wonderful essayist and writer and I enjoyed the book both for its style and its content.

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Who was Cassandra?


  • In the Iliad, she is described as the loveliest of the daughters of Priam (King of Troy), and gifted with prophecy. The god Apollo loved her, but she spurned him. As a punishment, he decreed that no one would ever believe her. So when she told her fellow Trojans that the Greeks were hiding inside the wooden horse...well, you know what happened.

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