Re: What will I get for Donatist Christmas?

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:27:04PM -0800, Adam Walker wrote:
> since the Roman Church is the worst of all
> heretics the Donatists naturally rejected the papally
> sponsored calandar reform just as the Eastern Churches
> did.
Ah.

> > Jan 4                   Earth's perihelion
> >    German lang ref
>
> In honor of Kepler?
Indeed.

>
> > Jan 5                   Villon banned from Paris
> >    _Le_Ton_Beau_de_Marot_
>
> Well, how 'bout substituting the book my sis gave me
> for Western Christmas
> _Memories_Politiques_et_Militaires,_Pour
> _servir_a_l'histoire_de_Louis_XIV_&_de_Louis_XV, etc.
> tome quatrieme by M. l'Abbe Millot printed M. Dcc.
> LXXVII.  Just to economise, you know.
Well, that'll work, I guess. I  do recommend LTBdM, though,
for Anglophones who are interested in language.  It's
an interesting exploration of the whole concept of translation,
especially poetry translation, by Douglas Hofstadter (author
of _Goedel,_Escher,_Bach:_an_Eternal_Golden_Braid_ and the
"Metamagical_Themas" column in mid-1980s _Scientific_American_).

> No such thing as too many books . . .
Amen!

-Mark