[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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