10 Years After

Persistance Of Time
Friday afternoon I was driving down the interstate listening to an audiobook of Anne Fadiman's " Ex Libris: confessions of a common reader" when suddenly I realized that I blundered on my English test earlier that day. I had only partially described the Elgin Marbles. I had gotten so far as to describe them as greek statues in relief from the frieze... and that's where I stopped. I had been looking for the name fo the building other than Parthenon. The word, Acropolis, was mentioned by the tape and I threw my hands up immediately realizing what I had done. I had planned to come up with the name and then add in that the marbles were named in honor of Lord Elgin who brought the statues, made of marble, to England from a war-torn Greece and sold them to the British Museum. Perhaps, even state that Greece has claimed the marbles as their own as national property, a claim which Britain refuses to acknowldge. The marbles are immortalized in the sonnet about the statues by John Keats upon viewing them in the British Museum.

Today in class we read over a few more Tennyson poems.