Sunday, June 05, 2005

Oxyrhynchus What?

On a personal note, this revelation injects new life into my deliberation on potential careers to pursue, greedy capitalist or academic classicist. The prospect of endless and inconclusive toil over minute fragments and scraps of literature always portended a rather less than enjoyable future in classics, but now the promise of new texts to study makes the field a bit more tantalizing. Of course, a great deal of the previous classical corpus was practically virgin forest, but the newfound legibility of these texts is invigorating. Nonetheless, I still have the expectation and desire for vast sums of money for various reasons and purposes.

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