February 28, 2007

I dreamed that perseus.tufts.edu included George W. Bush in its list of Latin authors. Ha ha, I thought, that's cute, everyone thinks he's a Roman emperor. But no—it turned out that in his youth, Bush had found time to do a translation of Cicero, and it wasn't half bad. I was flummoxed. Had I misjudged everything?

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.