I have just received a letter from an amiable Canberra Quadrant reader whom I have not met. How do I know she is amiable? Because this is her second letter of recent years, approving some of my somewhat spotty writings. Such trifles as mine can hardly present much challenge to a reader so formidably equipped as she, for she has recently completed the reading, in Latin, of all twelve books of Virgil’s Aeneid. It took her four years, and she says she did it because she was determined to. Well done! But even at the instant of raising my hat…
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