Since the subject came up ... there is the poem "Sortes Vergilianae" in John Ashbery's _The Double Dream of Spring_. I've never caught the connection between this poem and its title, but then, in Ashbery that relationship can be oblique. ............................................................................ ..............
College, the author implied, meant simply years wasted on Latin verbs and calculus. Vergil, and Harvard, were cited regularly with an uncomfortable, if off-hand, reverence for their unnecessary existences. William Gaddis, _The Recognitions_ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
