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Lex Oppia Debate

August 30, 2023

195 BC. Rome. A motion was brought by the pleb tribunes to repeal the Lex Oppia.  The Lex Oppia, brought by Gaius Oppius during the

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August 2023 Reading

August 29, 2023

Far from the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy  (1874) I know, you want to say “maddening” rather than “madding”, but that’s not the title. Madding means frenzied. The

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The Male Gaze

August 22, 2023

Ok, so with the release of the Barbie movie, I have been reading from women how the movie speaks to them. One of the terms

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Language Learning

August 11, 2023

It has been over 10 years since the last time I was in Italy, which was 2011. While I have occasionally exercised my Italian in

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Jane Eyre- Moor House / Morton

August 10, 2023

Character list The breadshop clerk  Hannah- housekeeper at the Rivers’ place.  Diana Rivers- St John’s sister, she is handsome and intelligent. She loves to share her knowledge

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SPQR Ch 10 – Mary Beard

August 9, 2023

10 Fourteen Emperors  What went wrong with Gaius? Tiberius took over seamlessly from Augustus but grew increasingly reclusive over the last decade of his life, spending

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dave

“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.