Barry Baldwin
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Reprinted with permission of the author himself, who years ago had to deal with yours truly as a student. Errors in transcription accrue to the latter. (Companionette to Harry Bruce’s Page Fright: Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers, McLelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2009.) “To keep on sending little frogs… is like keeping on teaching Latin…
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Reprinted with permission of the author himself, who years ago had to deal with yours truly as a student. Errors in transcription accrue to the latter. (titular apologies to Tom Lehrer) “Imposture merges away into self-deception so that only relatively has there ever been an impostor”-Fort Books, p669. The first classical hoax was Helen of…
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Reprinted with permission of the author himself, who years ago had to deal with yours truly as a student. Errors in transcription accrue to the latter. (Titular honours shared with policeman-cook Henry Crabbe) “Every mathematics master dreads the day when he will have to explain the Theorem of Pythagoras” – HF Ellis, The World of…
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[Editor’s note: this is another never-before-seen effort from Dr Baldwin; we are again grateful that he thought this was an appropriate venue! As always, yours truly takes responsibility for any typos or other editorial negligences which may accrue.] EGGHEADS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR YOLKS (As Adlai Stevenson once…
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[Editor’s note: this is a never-before-seen effort by Dr Baldwin; we are grateful that he thought this was an appropriate venue! As always, yours truly takes responsibility for any typos or other editorial negligences which may accrue.] Thought it might be amusingly instructive to compare and contrast definitions of Latin sexual terms in Lewis &…
rogue classicism 