Category Archives: Gloating

An Update, Telegram Style

By terje | Published: July 7, 2009
Saw Athens with fun people. Loved it. Stayed home, wrote papers. Got bored. Visited Rome with nice persians. Hated leaving. Wrote paper. Worked. Bought tickets for Dinosaur Jr. Found out 6 months had passed. Wrote this post. Send more money.
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YES! (And a call for assistance)

By terje | Published: December 4, 2008
Yesterday, I got got an e-mail notifying me that I have been accepted as a student at the Norwegian Institutes at Athens and Rome next semester! Along with about 20 other students from various Norwegian universities, I’ll be spending first six weeks, from January 26 to March 6, in Athens, followed by six weeks, [...]
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The Histories by Herodotus

By terje | Published: November 18, 2008
[Approximately 435 BCE] 2003. Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt (1954). Introduction and notes by John Marincola (1996, 2003). 600 pages of main text. 166 pages of paratext.
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A Plague! A Plague on Our Houses!

By terje | Published: May 24, 2008
In my Last.fm shoutbox, I was recently asked by one of my readers to post more frequently in my blog, and seeing as your whim is my law, I bring you this: an essay of sorts about the last topic you’d expected me to write about! One of the things you might not know [...]
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Atheists <3 Averröes (or ibn Rushd, if you prefer)

By terje | Published: March 28, 2008
“In the Christian intellectual environment of the thirteenth century, apparent conflicts between argumentation in natural philosophy and argumentation in matter sof theological doctrine became exceptionally acute. The newly introduced writings of from the ancients — Greek philosophy and science, accompanied by Arabic and Hebrew commentary — rigorously set forth propositions alien to fundamental dicta of [...]
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A-braggin’ we shall go

By terje | Published: January 25, 2008
I got the results of my last exam this weekend, and in connection to that I guess I ought to say a little more about why, exactly, it is that I’ve been absent for so long the last couple of weeks. You see, the last month of the Fall term, I spent relatively much time on [...]
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Take a gander at that share ratio

By terje | Published: November 26, 2007
I’m such a great guy.
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Bragging…

By terje | Published: October 10, 2007
Is a thing commonly approved of in our current culture. But seeing as Ithink most of our current culture is crap, here’s what my English professor had to say about the first obigatory activity I handed in a couple of weeks ago: “Hi, Terje– This is VERY nicely done! While there are a few slips here and [...]
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My Gods, I feel lucky…

By terje | Published: October 2, 2007
… to be born in this day and age, and in this country. As an example of the former, I choose the fact that it’s no more than perhaps two hundred years since chimneys became common in Norway. As an example for the latter, I must say that even though I am baffled, at times, at how [...]
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Gudenes Fall

By terje | Published: September 29, 2007
Gudenes Fall, by Cornelius Jakhelln. 2007, 428 pages. Now, this might be a little weird. Gudenes Fall (The Fall of the Gods) is a book that most likely never will be translated into English, and yet, I choose to review it in English. But hey, my English is still worse than my Norwegian. In the year 1000 AD, [...]
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