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« Reply #15 on: July 09, 2020, 08:40:20 am »
Holden,

Thank you for your words. From what you tell me Joyce´s book is really strange with strange characters. Ireland reminds me of a movie I saw twenty years ago about Michael Collins and the Irish Republican Army and their struggle against the British Empire. Irish actor Liam Neeson played Michael Collins.

Yes, most writers had sad lives. You yourself have given many examples. Lucidity is a heavy burden for most of them.
I remember reading that in April 1951, the Iranian writer Sadegh Hedayat gassed himself in an apartment in Paris. Before that he attemped to commit suicide by throwing himself into the Marne. He failed because a couple was having
sex in a boat and they stopped to pull him out.

Hedayat said that “there were times when I wished I could be endowed after death with large hands, with long sensitive
fingers: I would carefully collect together all the atoms of my body and hold them tightly in my hands to prevent them, my property, from passing into the bodies of rabble-men.”

Would there be any room for future lucid writers after this pandemic? I doubt it. For the first time I heard a Paraguayan doctor speak about the “new normality”. This means a new step towards a dictatorship more brutal than the ones I read about. By the way a meteor was spotted burning up in the sky over China in October last year. Some say that when meteors appear it is a bad omen.

Latin was taught in secondary schools but in the 1990s the Ministry of Education changed the program and Latin was removed. I know that in the Faculty of Philosophy of the National University basic Latin is taught.  Apart from that Latin is taught in Catholic seminaries.

Most nights I can´t sleep well. I have panic attacks.  I get up and walk in my room and look out of the window. Well, life is a nightmare.

Take care.