Today I learned that the roman poet Virgil is most famous for the Aeneid which is an epic poem ostensibly about the founding of Rome, notable for the fact that it doesn’t include the characters/persons of Romulus or Remus. There were many different foundation stories about Rome, and the Aeneid is one of them. It has the distinction of connecting Rome with a direct line to Greek culture and mythology — the central character fought at Troy with Achilles and Odysseus, is kicked out of Greece upon returning home, and travels to Italy, where he founds Rome, and thus, the Romans. Neat stuff. For the Romans.
What I really learned, though, was that Virgil is not Dante, and thus did not write the divine comedy…Virgil is a character in Dante’s inferno. He’s our guide through hell, in fact. And that’s where I got it confused. Virgil wrote the Aeneid. Dante wrote Inferno. Got it.
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Oh, how I needed this extra day off. I used it to get back into the swing of things writing-wise. It worked! Twelve pages: accomplished. Gonna do twelve more tomorrow. After that, we’ll see. I have an idea about how to ‘catch up’ that might be less stress than trying to do 60 this week. But…maybe I’ll just push through this week, you know? Rather than spread it out. A lot can happen over the next couple months, which is the timeframe I want to finish this damn thing by.
It’s going well! Exciting stuff today. In fact, I think this book is going to be pretty damn action-packed. I’m excited about it. The next one, too, now that I think about it. Get to go some fun new places in the next one, meet some brand new people.
I also used today to rest—took an epic afternoon nap. Watched some more of Andor Season 1. It’s a masterpiece, y’all. I think it might actually be the best Star Wars of them all, and I’m not kidding. It’s important. Like, incredibly, incredibly relevant and resonant for the times we live in. I’m very nervous about watching season 2, which I haven’t started yet…but season one is almost perfect. Close enough, anyway.
Oh, and I did more digging in the front yard. Putting in a parking space. So much work. Sigh. But getting there. Getting there. About an hour at a time. Little over halfway done with the digging. Then: I buy the lumber and level the space. That’s next. This weekend, I hope. We’ll see.
Night night.