“As it happens I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language...” —Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
November 16 commemorates the death of St. Hugh of Lincoln–not to be confused with Little St. Hugh of Lincoln who Chaucer wrote about–a darn popular saint in England, but not really anywhere else. Since he lived in the late twelfth century, his Vita (saintly biography) is more concerned with his skill as an administrator than [...]