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Homer, Virgil and a Journalist
Burgess, Robert Louis | January 28, 1925 issue

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Greek and Latin are not subjects the author reluctantly took in college. Author approached the classic languages at the age of thirty. The determined fellow's theory was that nearly a decade of writing for daily newspapers had worn of the edges of words, and that hand-to-hand grappling with ancient and beautiful words would restore these edges. Author become conscious again, or perhaps for the first time, of the individual word. As a journalist author thought in terms of whole columns. Never was author able to stop one paragraph, sentence, word, commune with it closely, ask it what it signified, where it came from, where it was going.

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AUTHORS; JOURNALISM; JOURNALISTS; GREEK language; LATIN language; PARAGRAPHS
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