To (Doroth)each Their Own

[missdodobrooke]

“I had started to feel a clear longing to figure out what my path would be. I wasn't sure what direction it would take, but it had to be something interesting and consequential.”

- Bill Gates, Source Code

“For a long while she had been oppressed by the indefiniteness which hung in her mind, like a thick summer haze, over all her desire to make her life greatly effective. What could she do, what ought she to do?”

- George Eliot, Middlemarch

[missdodobrooke]

“I like to think that the animals about us have souls something like our own, and either carry on their own little affairs or can be companions to us, like Monk here.”

[missdodobrooke]

Dinner with Mr Casaubon-net!

[aboutanancientenquiry]

Casaubon’s copy of Herodotus’ Histones (Title Page). Cam. Uni. Lib. Adv. a.3.2. Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.

From the paper of Anthony Ellis Herodotus Magister Vitae. Or: Herodotus and God in the Protestant Reformation in B. A. Ellis (ed.) God in History: Reading and Rewriting Herodotean Theology from Plutarch to the Renaissance (Histos Supplementary Volume 4: Newcastle on Tyne, 2015)

Isaac Casaubon (Geneva 1559-London 1614) was an important Classical scholar and philologist of Protestant confession.