Word: vergil
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...Homer Vergil...
...even asked each of the Cabinet's 28 members to give a blow-by-blow account of his own electoral battles, delivered a wryly appropriate quote from Vergil when Veterans' Affairs Minister Alexandre Sanguinetti found it hard to talk about his defeat by 166 votes. "Infandum, regina, iubes reno-vare dolorem,"-murmured De Gaulle -"Unspeakable is the pain, O Queen, that you command me to relive...
...much as the Dean o' Flunks [the devil] or anyone else." While Barth seems to be crudely baiting religion, he is actually enunciating his concern with the theological conception of the hypostatic nature of Christ-that Christ was both fully human and fully divine. Goat-Boy's Vergil on his pilgrimage is Stoker, a cynical beast of burden who may be in league with the devil and whose slogan is: "Never mind the question! The answer's Power...
...Lowry died of drink (which the coroner called "misadventure") in his native England in 1957. He also lived by it; it was his Vergil, guide to those infernal regions from which he returned a man possessed by demons. He exorcised them by the masterpiece called Under the Volcano, which can be read as a novel but understood only as a parable of the pit. "William James if not Freud," he wrote in a letter to his British publisher, "would certainly agree with me when I say that the agonies of the drunkard find their most accurate poetic analogue...
Pease was a leading scholar of Vergil and Cicero. His monumental work, a critical edition of Cicero's De Natura Deorum, appeared after his retirement...