What did you say?
Kenneth Rexroth

How many stopped writing at thirty?
How many died of prefrontal
Lobotomies in the Communist Party?
How many are lost in the back wards
Of provincial madhouses?
How many on the advice of
Their psychoanalysts, decided
A business career was best after all?

- Kenneth Rexroth
Thersites: Anti-War Agitator

Thersites: Anti-War Agitator

Posted on Nov 23, 2021 in CL4468 Student blog

Thersites might be easily overlooked in the Iliad. In Book 2 he is described as brutish and ugly. [1] But he is a man of action. He stands up to Agamemnon and the other leaders of the Greeks, encouraging his fellow soldiers to stop throwing away their lives for the commanders and some rich man’s […]