The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-12-07
Saltwater, Minnesota Thursday December 7, 1922.

She handed back the eraser and said,
thanks, so much. Not at all, any time,
Thomas said. What's her name, wonder.
Tend to business. Prof. L. Roy Lander
was saying:
The most authentic and complete
works of the Ancients in literature are
found in the early Greeks. The Illiad and
the Odyssey being, as it were,
Hopes of forgotten ages! Is he going
into all that? Ulysses and the bathing
Beauties Mack Sennett's rival. Sack of
1lium. What then? There was, hmm.
Early rural chorus, single protagonist.
Open theater. Advance Later tragedians:
Euripides Medas, Sophocles' Oedipus
Tyrannus, Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound,
Aristophanes' The Clouds Enter philoso-
ply, wit. Discourses of Plato, Aristotle.
Owe lot to Alexander, putting em all in
touch with. Conquests, I'm thinking of.
Top hole, when, let's see, around end of
B. c. Then decline. Up and down, then
a new one, up and OWN again. They all
do it. England, America, how soon? But
the language Perfect, can't talk jazz
but then don't want to- Intellec-
tual, that's it. Nothing like it now. IHN
meaning HE short for IHEOYE, can't
pronounce translate means Jesus, remem-
Der that much anyhow. What you do
forget. There's Mason over there, didn't
know he was in too. Whose giving this
lecture, you or me? Well, go ahead.
AS the power of the Roman Empire
expanded, the Latin tongue, absorbing the
ideals of her dying victims, Greece, Egypt,
Macedonia, Assyria, Palestine, all, took on
a fuency and erudition such as has not
been equalled since the Renaissance. Yet
there is a boldness, harshness, a rough
synthesis, more noticeable in the earlier
centuries, which is only found in the writ
ings of militant people. The beginning
of the Christian era, however, marked
sybaritic achievement in the polemics of
Vergil and Cicero which disseminated it
self throughout the Empire.
Prof. L. Roy Lander paused, turning
over a page of notes. How does he keep
them straight? Sort of an outline of ltera-
ture, this. History of man; history of
lit. Same thing Literature more exact
than history, though. Who else was there
Plautus, dramatist wasn't he, Lucretius,
Juvena, others. Statues for all of 'em.
Colosseum, Faure says about it, what:
Ne7,er has there been seen Under tie hea--
Gems a theatre better arranged for present.
ing the spectacle of suicide Man that
one. Knows what he's talking about.
Memory picking up. Then who, Caesar,
Anthony, pagans all of them. Petronius
Arbiter, his Satyricon. Gay life they led
those days. Can't beat that for portrayal,
either. One of the best. Spade spade.
No morals in their literature. There is nc
such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are 4ceN 4criften or badly avritfen.
That is aH That's Wilde Oscar. Right,
too, only trouble is people don't look at it
right. They never do. Take Caesars COM
mentaries: All Gaul est diVidendia is it
into tres parties of which, can't remember,
reads like novel anyway. Took two,
how many, three years in four. Got
through Vergil's Aeneid the last year, by
the grace of God and the help of pony.
Cicero's reply to Catiline. Phalanx, 8, 10,
II, 16 deep, kill 'em off like grass. All
comes out in their literature. Dead Ian
guage now, though. All (Page 4, Col. a)