Classical Corner – Page 2 – rogue classicism

August 17, 2019

Barry Baldwin ~ Some Bookcases

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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August 10, 2019

Barry Baldwin ~ The Old Dupe Pedlars

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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August 3, 2019

Barry Baldwin ~ Pie in the Sky

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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January 10, 2019

Barry Baldwin ~ Puns in Liddell and Scott

[Editor’s note: years ago we regularly featured transcriptions of Barry Baldwin’s Classical Corner items from Fortean Times, and we are happy to announce we will be resuming this (with the author’s permission). Just to get the ball rolling, here’s a recent piece from Barry Baldwin, reprinted with permission of the author himself, who years ago…

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