{"id":12078,"date":"2012-10-22T14:06:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2012-10-22T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T19:06:11","slug":"wherein-a-simple-mistake-shows-the-true-source-of-brian-j-s-classical-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/wherein-a-simple-mistake-shows-the-true-source-of-brian-j-s-classical-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein a Simple Mistake Shows The True Source of Brian J.’s “Classical” Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

So my wife and I are discussing female cat names the other night. It’s easy for me to come up with literary male cat names; all of history and literature is rife with them. But female cat names are a different story. I don’t know many female literary names with the same zing of male protagonists. I mean, who wants a cat named Warshawski<\/a>?<\/p>\n

So in a moment of inspiration, I turned to Norse and Celtic mythology. Brigit<\/a><\/em>, I offer (leading to the inevitable discussion of how you pronounce Brigit). Boadicea<\/a><\/em>, I say, undoubtedly pronouncing it wrong without any ensuing discussion. Lady Sif<\/a><\/em>, I offer.<\/p>\n

However: I characterize her as the Marvel Comics rendition, not the actual Norse rendition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Which betrays the fact that I have not read a single edda in my life. Saga, either.<\/p>\n

I really do try to punch above my intellectual weight, though, and I’ve got a pretty good fa\u00e7ade going. Do you see the \u00e7<\/em> there? BECAUSE OUTWARD DEMONSTRATION OF LITERARY HIPSTERISM!<\/p>\n

Strangely, though, although I’ve thought of it before, I did not bring the name Morgaine<\/a><\/em> into the discussion.<\/p>\n

Not because of the Mallory. Because of the literary Rosenbergism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So my wife and I are discussing female cat names the other night. It’s easy for me to come up with literary male cat names; all of history and literature is rife with them. But female cat names are a different story. I don’t know many female literary names with the same zing of male […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12081,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions\/12081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}