As I might have mentioned, I’ve been reading some Alexander Pope recently (I read a 100-year-old textbook copy of The Rape of the Lock, and I later found another 100-year-old edition). After all of that hyperlinked living, I found another 100-year-old textbook copy of Alexander Pope, and I’ve been working through it because it contains “An Essay on Criticism” in it, I decided to read it and the other poems in it to count it for another book in the annual total plus a brief Alexander Pope schtick on the blog, and….
So I might have mentioned, I’ve been working on an audiocourse on ancient Egypt, which… mentions “The Rape of the Lock”. I don’t think that the professor quite got the point of “The Rape of the Lock” as he mentioned it as part of a lecture on Egyptians tearing their locks out in mourning, which is not the point of “The Rape of the Lock” at all, but anyway….
I picked up a fiction book to work through while reading the Pope (blocking because I’m lazy the other thick books on my chairside table which I should be reading, and it mentions Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. Aw, yeah, the main wife of the “heretical” Pharaoh Akhenaten. I know the difference between Nefertiti and Hatshepsut, brah. And, briefly (set to expire in December of this year), I can tell the difference between the 18th and 19th dynasties of Egypt.
But, ya know, dang. How learning reinforces learning.
