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Here are all 649 posts ordered chronologically:

June 2008 (4)
- 14: Citation (33)
- 21: at a loss
- 24: seconds
- 30: fructify
May 2008 (9)
- 02: Citation (32)
- 04: moments of lethargy
- 08: at the mercy of confusion
- 09: the kind of day
- 14: 14.5.2008
- 15: crave
- 23: emptied nest
- 27: A view (23)
- 30: first fruits
April 2008 (10)
- 04: going to…
- 09: in the workplace
- 12: A view (21)
- 15: pseudaphoristica (15)
- 17: Ho yuss! Vurry true.
- 20: pedestrian
- 24: another day
- 26: A view (22)
- 27: Citation (31)
- 29: transparencies
March 2008 (6)
- 08: pseudaphoristica (14)
- 23: rivulets
- 25: all the baggage
- 28: exposure
- 29: hold my coat and snicker
- 30: Citation (30)
January 2008 (1)
- 13: anonymous admirer
December 2007 (7)
- 02: through the glass
- 09: literary virtues
- 14: glad eye
- 16: dialogue in solitude
- 27: 27.12.2007
- 29: gothic victorian sea monsters
- 31: ostraka
November 2007 (3)
- 02: adrift
- 04: A view (20)
- 27: sense of direction
October 2007 (7)
- 02: greene dreams
- 06: aridity
- 13: fiction of ideas
- 14: teatime
- 15: spoiler
- 20: mizzling
- 31: optimist
September 2007 (5)
- 03: … of undarkness
- 04: wild east
- 06: turn about
- 12: of the times
- 23: modern moral life
August 2007 (2)
- 05: ginger mint lemonade
- 27: not at home
July 2007 (1)
- 28: a pounding
May 2007 (1)
- 24: 1456
March 2007 (3)
- 18: understanding
- 24: ghost pain
- 29: self help
February 2007 (1)
- 11: analysis
January 2007 (1)
- 07: these days
December 2006 (2)
- 07: sugar daddy
- 24: bright lights
November 2006 (1)
- 02: Cold Fish
October 2006 (1)
- 13: fog
September 2006 (3)
- 01: enemy action
- 19: Raw Materials
- 27: social ethics
August 2006 (2)
- 09: classy
- 30: evening
July 2006 (1)
- 16: movements
June 2006 (5)
- 01: gently
- 02: return to stacks
- 07: A view (18)
- 08: A view (19)
- 10: the seventh (0)
May 2006 (1)
- 19: translator’s note
April 2006 (4)
- 03: soporific
- 09: natural selections
- 14: lines written in Oregon
- 26: quite literally
March 2006 (4)
- 05: the fifth
- 10: A view (17)
- 12: the sixth
- 15: the way to wealth
February 2006 (5)
- 05: the second
- 12: the third
- 13: notes on reading: social
- 25: footprints (0)
- 26: the fourth
January 2006 (5)
- 10: a realism
- 17: fragment from the shower
- 28: knees on a train
- 28: family albums
- 29: the first
December 2005 (2)
- 19: Over a year
- 26: houseplants
November 2005 (1)
- 22: lacuna
August 2005 (1)
- 20: lost illusions
March 2005 (2)
- 01: A view (16)
- 24: Citation (29)
January 2005 (3)
- 01: east of Eden in the land of Nod
- 14: Via (1)
- 17: Citation (28)
December 2004 (4)
- 03: pseudaphoristica (13)
- 07: Curses! Foiled again!
- 13: commerce
- 17: Crambe repetita (13)
November 2004 (6)
- 02: Crambe repetita (12)
- 03: noted
- 08: a quiet evening
- 10: Seinsverfassung
- 13: Citation (27)
- 23: What’s this?
October 2004 (1)
- 18: A view (15)
September 2004 (4)
- 03: Crambe repetita (11)
- 14: court
- 15: a quiver
- 28: Citation (26)
August 2004 (2)
- 05: Citation (25)
- 20: peripatetic
July 2004 (6)
- 08: Citation (24)
- 12: oinopa
- 17: skholē
- 20: falsa lectio
- 24: unsettled
- 31: pseudaphoristica (12)
June 2004 (11)
- 04: postponed
- 06: Poetastery (3)
- 08: we like sheep
- 11: Citation (23)
- 12: An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
- 16: parrying poetics
- 21: an interval
- 24: Interstices
- 26: The Sacred Font
- 26: Crambe repetita (10)
- 30: periplum
May 2004 (19)
- 01: Crambe repetita (8)
- 02: pseudaphoristica (11)
- 03: sunk
- 04: cyclic
- 06: A view (14)
- 10: markedly
- 11: scrapes
- 12: introductory
- 13: Pnin
- 15: madárka
- 15: Snow
- 16: Citation (22)
- 18: they say it’s May
- 19: west
- 21: Crambe repetita (9)
- 22: Put down the apple Adam
- 23: give pearls away and rubies
- 25: naufragium
- 29: midnight oil
April 2004 (18)
- 01: WBY
- 01: Directions to Servants
- 05: Crambe repetita (7)
- 07: Inquiries
- 09: Portrait of the Author
- 09: Love and Freindship (sic)
- 10: continuity
- 11: Citation (21)
- 12: respite
- 19: exquisite
- 20: ablative abecedarian
- 21: experimentalist
- 23: perspicable
- 24: clouds
- 25: pseudaphoristica (10)
- 25: Murphy
- 27: discoursing
- 29: ex magna turba…
March 2004 (25)
- 01: unfinished
- 04: pseudaphoristica (8)
- 06: the mind diseased
- 08: Citation (18)
- 09: the trial
- 10: sortes
- 11: obscure
- 12: Citation (19)
- 13: red
- 16: Crambe repetita (6)
- 19: reference
- 21: Vittoria Corombona
- 22: Img. 3
- 23: de arte poetica liber
- 23: A Sudden Liberating Thought
- 24: punt
- 24: Img. 4
- 24: The Victim of Prejudice
- 25: Citation (20)
- 26: epistulæ immaniores
- 26: Rasselas
- 27: pseudaphoristica (9)
- 27: The Green Dwarf
- 29: to the dogs
- 31: Street Sleeper
February 2004 (15)
- 01: Citation (16)
- 02: symbolical
- 04: de aquis urbis Romæ
- 05: sphinx
- 06: splitted in the midst
- 08: the world discovered
- 09: curatores cloacarum
- 12: hermetically
- 15: Crambe repetita (5)
- 16: heuristic
- 17: invidia
- 21: fact
- 22: Citation (17)
- 25: miaros
- 29: The ‘Genius’
January 2004 (16)
- 08: nostalgia (again)
- 09: axunesias
- 11: pseudaphoristica (7)
- 12: mire
- 13: Crambe repetita (4)
- 15: the very marrow
- 16: Citation (15)
- 18: cornered
- 20: de pumilis libellis
- 22: inquiry (8)
- 24: when in Rome
- 26: birds, for the
- 27: ciceronian
- 29: nêpioi
- 29: colonoscopy
- 31: P. A. Loxias
December 2003 (9)
- 01: Citation (14)
- 04: pedant
- 09: without books
- 10: constitutional
- 12: in haste
- 20: Crambe repetita (3)
- 22: inquiry (7)
- 27: you may
- 30: A view (13)
November 2003 (13)
- 01: inscriptiones graecae
- 03: Crambe repetita (2)
- 07: notify me
- 10: A view (11)
- 11: I feel sick
- 13: ex-libris
- 14: dedication
- 15: fructus
- 17: Citation (13)
- 20: irreptitious
- 23: grave &38; weatherworn
- 23: prosopopœia (1)
- 30: A view (12)
October 2003 (10)
- 04: practical wisdom
- 11: stroll
- 15: twigs
- 17: on my desk
- 19: A view (10)
- 21: the emphasis was helped
- 23: nb
- 25: Crambe repetita (1)
- 27: Socrates Silenos
- 29: a well lerned gentylwoman
September 2003 (11)
- 01: pseudaphoristica (5)
- 02: Report from the Jungle
- 09: ‘could it be J— H— herself?’
- 10: pseudaphoristica (6)
- 11: incidentals
- 13: a curiosity
- 16: resartus
- 18: ruby yachts
- 22: inquiry (6)
- 23: An unusual occurence (2)
- 30: in springtime
August 2003 (16)
- 02: reference
- 04: diction
- 05: Shoot the messenger
- 06: poena sine fine
- 09: logorrhea
- 10: of doubtful origin
- 12: afoot
- 16: Citation (11)
- 18: alma mater
- 20: heptaphyllon
- 22: inquiry (1)
- 22: inquiry (2)
- 23: inquiry (3)
- 26: Citation (12)
- 30: inquiry (4)
- 30: inquiry (5)
July 2003 (15)
- 01: Pragmatism
- 02: Flibbertigibbet
- 07: Note
- 09: Part the Sixth
- 10: An Errant Academic
- 12: Citation (10)
- 15: Hours of Idleness
- 16: aestive
- 18: formicae
- 21: Zukunftsphilologen!
- 23: discomfited, confiteor
- 25: A view (9)
- 26: ex silentio
- 27: I think not so, my lord
- 31: at the circumlocution office
June 2003 (19)
- 02: Treasons and Strategems
- 03: errare humanum est
- 06: pseudaphoristica (1)
- 08: Citation (9)
- 09: one of the oldest jokes in the book
- 10: apropos of nothing
- 11: pseudaphoristica (2)
- 14: waiting for the flood
- 15: revilement
- 16: inventio, -onis f.
- 17: pseudaphoristica (3)
- 18: Miss Beale and Miss Buss
- 20: humanistic
- 22: obsolescence
- 24: A view (8)
- 25: regimen
- 27: phrases
- 28: The Twentieth Part
- 29: pseudaphoristica (4)
May 2003 (15)
- 01: Anxiety of Influence (i): Laurence Sterne
- 02: Qualitative
- 03: A dark and stormy night
- 05: Refuse
- 06: supranational blue
- 07: Citation (8)
- 08: An unusual occurence (1)
- 09: Passing strange
- 12: The Fourteenth Part
- 13: Objections
- 14: The Thirteenth Part
- 15: The Fiendish Belly
- 18: The trouble with Shakespeare
- 19: Shortcuts
- 31: Periplus
April 2003 (18)
- 01: of Vices and Virtues
- 03: the Third Day
- 10: a Record of Consumption
- 11: accidental augury
- 13: Sunday
- 14: Consumers of Culture
- 15: the end of English letters
- 16: now that’s quality
- 17: Loot
- 18: Poor, obscure, plain & little
- 19: fortitude
- 20: febrility
- 23: The Diseases and Casualties this Week
- 24: Poetastery (2)
- 25: Part the Fifth
- 27: Citation (7)
- 29: Terrible learning, Mr. Newman
- 30: Notes for a never-to-be-considered translation of Homer
March 2003 (22)
- 01: Only Connect (part the first)
- 03: Introductory
- 04: My prophetic soul
- 06: Memoirs
- 07: Part the Second
- 09: Sunday
- 10: A view (7)
- 11: The Nineteenth Part
- 13: Moriae Encomium
- 14: The Historicity of Peasants
- 15: Lavatory
- 16: Incomplete Associations (Greek)
- 18: moriae redux
- 19: Part the Fourth
- 20: Epistulae Humaniores
- 21: abecedarian
- 24: Aposiopesis
- 25: the false dichotomy
- 26: der Brand
- 27: somnium alienae
- 28: Influential Books (ii)
- 30: another untruth
February 2003 (20)
- 01: An Observation (3)
- 02: Citation (6)
- 03: gallery
- 05: Oddities
- 06: Republican letters
- 09: Balance of Power
- 10: A view (5)
- 11: Epicurus, ratae sententiae xxvii
- 12: Absurdity
- 13: Historicity
- 14: Improbable Places (3)
- 17: A view (6)
- 21: Part the First
- 22: Manipulus Vocabulorum
- 23: Writ in water
- 24: Impossible Epistles
- 25: Improbable Places (4)
- 26: Influential Books
- 27: Incomplete Associations (Latin)
- 28: It’s Academic
January 2003 (17)
- 01: a Peculiar Longing
- 03: Blindness
- 09: Concerning the Impiety of Andocides
- 10: Cultural Relativity
- 11: Note to Self (4)
- 12: Domesticity
- 13: Simplicity
- 14: Citation (5)
- 15: Update
- 17: Curio (1)
- 19: Evening
- 21: Byzantine Biographers
- 22: Of Academics
- 28: Perhaps
- 29: Sed Vitae Caesaris
- 30: an Observation (1)
- 31: an Observation (2)
December 2002 (12)
- 01: Mysteriosa Femina
- 03: Taxonomy
- 04: Citation (4)
- 06: Twists & Turns
- 07: Annales
- 08: Poetastery (1)
- 09: Note to Self (3)
- 10: Locus Classicus
- 11: With the greatest of ease
- 20: Conundrum
- 22: Treasons, Strategems, &c.
- 31: 2002 (0)
November 2002 (19)
- 01: Litterae Humaniores
- 02: Pacem supplices petunt*
- 03: Citation (2)
- 04: A view (3)
- 05: Codes of Misconduct
- 07: Citation (3)
- 12: Found Objects
- 13: Wednesday
- 14: Inscriptiones Graecae
- 15: Hall
- 17: Note to Self (2)
- 18: Neither a borrower…
- 19: Queries
- 20: Improbable places (1)
- 21: Improbable places (2)
- 25: The thing is
- 26: A view (4)
- 27: Compendium academicorum
- 30: prescriptive (1)
October 2002 (13)
- 18: A view (1)
- 19: Matriculation
- 19: Whole food
- 19: Citation (1)
- 20: The relevant point
- 21: Windmill
- 22: Miasma
- 23: The Topless Towers of Ilium
- 25: Periodical (1)
- 26: In the Garden
- 27: A view (2)
- 28: It was the Distance
- 29: The Histories of Books
September 2002 (3)
- 04: summer’s end
- 15: Note to Self (1)
- 16: Elenchus
August 2002 (2)
- 07: Lustral Basins, or the Archaeology of Remembrance
- 29: 29.08.2002
July 2002 (4)
- 20: A Footnote (20.07.2002)
- 23: N°. 7
- 23: 23 July 2002
- 24: Wednesday, 24 July 2002
June 2002 (5)
- 07: 7.06.02 - Friday
- 11: 11.06.02 - Tuesday
- 17: 17.06.02 - Monday
- 28: June 2002 (0)
- 28: 28.06.02 - Friday
May 2002 (17)
- 01: 2.05.02 - Thursday
- 04: 4.05.02 - Saturday
- 05: 5.05.02 - Sunday
- 08: 8.05.02 - Wednesday
- 09: 9.05.02 - Thursday
- 13: 13.05.02 - Monday
- 14: 14.05.02 - Tuesday
- 15: 15.05.02 - Wednesday
- 17: 17.05.02 - Friday
- 19: 19.05.02 - Sunday
- 21: 21.05.02 - Tuesday
- 24: 24.05.02 - Friday
- 25: 25.05.02 - Saturday
- 28: 28.05.02 - Tuesday
- 29: 29.05.02 - Wednesday
- 30: 30.05.02 - Thursday
- 31: 31.05.02 - Friday
April 2002 (5)
- 03: 3.04.02 - Wednesday
- 08: 8.04.02 - Monday
- 16: 16.04.02 - Tuesday
- 23: 23.04.02 - Tuesday
- 28: 28.04.02 - Sunday
March 2002 (16)
- 03: 03.03.02 - Sunday
- 04: 04.03.02 - Monday
- 05: 05.03.02 - Tuesday
- 06: 06.03.02 - Wednesday
- 07: 07.03.02 - Thursday
- 09: 09.03.02 - Saturday
- 12: 12.03.02 - Tuesday
- 14: 14.03.02 - Thursday
- 15: 15.03.02 - Friday
- 17: 17.03.02 - Sunday
- 19: 19.03.02 - Tuesday
- 22: 22.03.02 - Friday
- 26: 26.03.02 - Tuesday
- 28: 28.03.02 - Thursday
- 29: 29.03.02 - Friday
- 31: 31.03.02 - Sunday
February 2002 (15)
- 01: 1.02.02 - Friday
- 02: 2.02.02 - Saturday
- 04: 4.02.02 - Monday
- 06: 6.02.02 - Wednesday
- 08: 8.02.02 - Friday
- 09: 9.02.02 - Saturday
- 11: 11.02.02 - Monday
- 12: 12.02.02 - Tuesday
- 13: 13.02.02 - Wednesday
- 21: 21.02.02 - Thursday
- 22: 22.02.02 - Friday
- 23: 23.02.02 - Saturday
- 26: studium (0)
- 27: 27.02.02 - Wednesday
- 28: 28.02.02 - Thursday
January 2002 (9)
- 01: 2001 (0)
- 07: 7.01.02 - Monday
- 08: 8.01.02 - Tuesday
- 10: 10.01.02 - Thursday
- 14: 14.01.02 - Monday
- 18: 18.01.02 - Friday
- 19: 19.01.02 - Saturday
- 22: 22.01.02 - Tuesday
- 30: 30.01.02 - Wednesday
December 2001 (4)
- 05: 5.12.01 - Wednesday
- 08: 8.12.01 - Saturday
- 12: 12.12.01 -Wednesday
- 22: 22.12.01 - Saturday
November 2001 (7)
- 01: 1.11.01 - Thursday
- 05: 5.11.01 - Monday
- 18: 18.11.01 - Sunday
- 19: 19.11.01 - Monday
- 22: 22.11.01 - Thursday
- 24: 24.11.01 - Saturday
- 29: 29.11.01 - Thursday
October 2001 (6)
- 09: 9.10.01
- 12: 12.10.01
- 14: 14.10.01
- 16: 16.10.01 - Tuesday
- 19: 19.10.01 - Friday
- 29: 29.10.01 - Monday
September 2001 (6)
- 02: 2.09.01
- 04: 4.09.01
- 05: 5.09.01
- 20: 20.09.01
- 25: 25.09.01
- 27: 27.09.01
August 2001 (7)
- 01: 1 August
- 02: 2.08.01
- 05: 5.08.01
- 08: 8.08.01
- 09: 9.08.01
- 13: 13.08.01
- 29: 29.08.01
July 2001 (5)
- 03: capital
- 05: 5 July
- 16: 16 July
- 21: 21 July
- 31: Observation
June 2001 (12)
- 01: 01.06.01
- 02: 02.06.01
- 03: 03.06.01
- 05: 05.06.01
- 12: 12.06.01
- 14: 14.06.01
- 16: 16.06.01
- 18: 18 June
- 21: Loxias
- 21: Funerary
- 21: little bird
- 28: 28 June
May 2001 (6)
- 01: 1.05.01
- 02: 2.05.01
- 15: 15.05.01
- 16: 16.05.01
- 17: 17.05.01
- 18: 18.05.01
April 2001 (4)
- 17: 17.04.01
- 18: 18.04.01
- 24: 24.04.01
- 29: 29.04.01
March 2001 (18)
- 01: 01.03.01
- 02: 02.03.01
- 03: 03.03.01
- 04: 04.03.01
- 05: 05.03.01
- 06: 06.03.01
- 07: 07.03.01
- 08: 08.03.01
- 09: 09.03.01
- 10: 10.03.01
- 11: 11.03.01
- 12: 12.03.01
- 13: 13.03.01
- 14: 14.03.01
- 15: 15.03.01
- 16: 16.03.01
- 17: 17.03.01
- 18: 18.03.01
February 2001 (28)
- 01: 1.02.01
- 02: 2.02.01
- 03: 3.02.01
- 04: 4.02.01
- 05: 5.02.01
- 06: 6.02.01
- 07: 7.02.01
- 08: 8.02.01
- 09: 9.02.01
- 10: 10.02.01
- 11: 11.02.01
- 12: 12.02.01
- 13: 13.02.01
- 14: 14.02.01
- 15: 15.02.01
- 16: 16.02.01
- 17: 17.02.01
- 18: 18.02.01
- 19: 19.02.01
- 20: 20.02.01
- 21: 21.02.01
- 22: 22.02.01
- 23: 23.02.01
- 24: 24.02.01
- 25: 25.02.01
- 26: 26.02.01
- 27: 27.02.01
- 28: 28.02.01
January 2001 (4)
- 24: 24.01.2001
- 25: 25.01.2001
- 26: 26.01.2001
- 28: note to self (a) 9.iii.2004
December 2000 (6)
- 21: 21 December 2000 - Rome
- 22: 22 December 2000 - Rome
- 23: 23 December 2000 - Rome
- 24: 24 December 2000 - Rome
- 26: 26 December 2000 - Rome
- 27: 27 December 2000 - Rome

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