What are you doing when you do long division? When you do addition, you draw a line under the numbers and add them up. Same for subtraction, except you subtract instead of add. And for multiplication you draw a line under the numbers and multiply. But for long division it’s not so simple. You draw a line above the number you’re dividing and do all sorts of things you memorized to do, and how does anyone know if it really works?
Lust isn’t really that bad. I mean, against the background of the Russian bombing of civilian apartment buildings in Kiev or the slaughter of starving women and children in Gaza it looks like welcome relievf.
Lust has it’s place in the list of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it’s not high on the list. In fact, Lust is the least deadly.
Tacitus, writing around the year 98, reports that as the Roman legions were extinguishing the last free holdouts in Britain, one of the native inhabitants of that land, a certain Calgacus, “superior to the others in bravery and birth,” rallied his troops against the Romans, rousing them before battle by describing the appetite the Romans had to oppress people, to occupy and rule over others everywhere, and then to misname what they did to make it sound honorable.
We appreciate Great Novels, especially Great British Novels, but every now and then our attention flags. And this isn’t limited to Great British Novels; there are also Great Russian Novels in which we’ve found our attention wandering. There are even some Great American Novels —
Much of the country is covered with snow this Valentine’s Day. That’s not unusual for a day in the middle of February in the Northern hemisphere, and when we mark Valentine’s Day on February 14th, we’re talking about Saint Valentine and Western Christianity.
You’ve probably heard of bitcoin – or should it be capitalized, Bitcoin? – and if you’ve gone further into it you’ve heard of Blockchain, or blockchain. These are words that a lot of people have heard and don’t understand. But bitcoin sounds like money, that’s the only thing everyone knows for sure.
It looks like it says something in Latin, but it doesn’t. It’s almost Latin, but it isn’t. And if you had Latin in high school you recognize certain words, almost recognize some of the others, and can’t make sense of the whole thing.
