Years ago, a friend, now dead for many years, gave me a copy of "The Letters of Evelyn Waugh." I picked this book up the other day. On the inside cover, she had written a note. It reads: "As Flannery [O'Connor]...
Plato was 40 years old (388 B.C.), as he tells us in his "Seventh Letter." The Peloponnesian War had ended in 404. The Greek colony of Syracuse on Sicily was in the ascendancy. Along with Sparta, Syracuse...
