Instantly Transported

Did not watch much of the speech last night. Caught a few minutes with the boy after Spurs' practice. That just sounds wrong.

Super damned busy-ass day at work. I just wanted to turn off my brain at the end of the day. Tons of errands after work and today I remembered to pay for a semester's worth of trumpet lessons @ the Community School of the Arts.

Kim made her delicious pasta gravy. Did I mention that I am a fucking lucky bastard? I had every intention of taking a second helping, parking my ass in front of the kitchen machine and calling up a rebroadcast of the State of the Union. Before I started I decided to check out a link to new files added to the Leo Strauss Center's audio library.

The Center finally uploaded part of a lecture series on Xenophon that I listened to with Professor Frisch all those years ago. I was instantly transported back to his office, sitting in front of that crappy cassette player and hearing those words that opened up the Hiero to me and taught me how to read like a man who was not trapped in a local, particular and particularly sad period of time for reading and letters in general.