[B-Greek] Burning brush and Learning Greek

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Mar 30 05:50:24 EDT 2008


No, that's not Burning "Bush" -- rather, it is Rod Decker's extended  
analogy between the learning Greek and the frustrating process of  
getting a more-or-less soggy mass of woodland brush to burn in a  
controlled but healthy blaze:

http://ntresources.com/blog/?p=112

Having done a lot of brush burning over the last several years of  
country living since retirement, I don't find the analogy so far- 
fetched as those without experience might. To state matters simply,  
neither task is an effortless one.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Ret)




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