Waaaah!

[ann_leckie]

I'm trying to go through all the online stuff I want to read, and just as soon as I get the open pages down to a lowish number, I find more links to things I want to read!!!!

And then one of the things I just read was this:

Anthony Snodgrass, emeritus professor of classical archaeology at Cambridge University, said The Odyssey could have been written by a woman because it is about "a world at peace in general terms, with domesticity, fidelity ... endurance and determination rather than aggression".

But he added: "The idea of a woman writing The Iliad and not being bored out of her mind by the endless fighting and killings is a bit more far-fetched."

Aaaaaaaarrrgh!! Where's my gun, damn it? Professor Snodgrass is lucky he's in England, and out of my reach.

In less frustrating news, I did get the desk in my office more or less cleaned off--since the weather had been nice up until a week or two ago, I'd been taking the laptop out on the porch, and using my office as a dumping ground for books and papers that needed eventual filing. Many things are now filed, many books are now put away. Many spiders' work has been destroyed--the basement is crammed with spiders.

Oh, and we're back online again.

Comments

[rachel-swirsky.livejournal.com]

Have you been to the Feminist SF blog? There's a post about this up there.

[ann-leckie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's where I found it. Found what I take to by your Y article, too! Very interesting--haven't read Y, but of course the "last man" thing, it's got certain relevance for other things I've read lately.

Damn Feminist F&SF blog carnival! All that stuff I wanted to read!!!