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Quotation of the Day for June 19, 2014"A revealing example--because not central to the argument--is the observation that many people still talk loosely of "records" when they mean CDs. "I suspect we speak this way," comments Nagy, "because the idea of memory is embedded in the word records." But of course this isn't why we sometimes refer to CDs as "records"; the term has simply been extended from one technology to its successor. Initially the record store sold records, then it sold records and CDs, then, before it folded, just CDs. But in organizing a record collection, we don't think of the heart (Latin cor) as the seat of memory, any more than we think of a carbon paper copy when we "cc" someone on an e-mail." - Gregory Hays, reviewing The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by Gregory Nagy. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jun. 17, 2014  |
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