telling of a true story, one with much at stake for all of us. And the further you read, the more astonishing it becomes. It's a chapter in how we became what we are, how we arrived at the worldview of the present. No one can tell the whole story, but Greenblatt seizes on a crucial pivot, a moment of recovery, of transmission, as amazing as anything in fiction.What's recovered, crazily enough, is a tattered copy of an epic philosophical poem written two millennia ago (at least 55 B.C.) by the Roman poet Lucretius (full name, Titus Lucretius Caro). Its traditional name is De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), and it's one of the wonders of world poetry.
from John Timpane: The Philadelphia Inquirer: New book "The Swerve," a gripping tale of an ancient poem that conveys the cosmos
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There are rules.
If you share your deepest personal secrets with thousands of strangers on the Web, you can't talk. You can smile, wave, play background music. You can even make a two-handed "heart" sign.
But talk? No.
If you're making a "secrets video" for posting on YouTube or Tumblr--as hundreds of young people, predominantly women, are doing--you must write your secrets out in flash-card fashion.
from John Timpane: The Philadelphia Inquirer: A very public space for sharing very private secrets
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