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CIRCUMSPICE GLAUKOPIS
NULLAM DICERE POSSUM
TOTAM ECLIPSAM CORDIS
AETERNITAS ILLAM NOCTEM INCIPIT

This happens when you study Latin too much. You translate parts of ridiculous songs such as Total Eclipse of the Heart into Latin. Though “Glaukopis” is Greek, but it straight up means “bright eyes.”

This evening consisted of occupying the Greek & Latin Reading Room in Memorial Library with Irene for a good number of hours, until closing time, studying Greek for tomorrow’s midterm. (Help us Lord.)

Walking back to our dorm, we stopped on Observatory Hill and laid on the ground for a while to watch the night sky.

We saw a couple shooting stars, including one that has surpassed all others I’ve seen in my life, burning big and white with a long tail of gold across an arc of sky, burning for a good few seconds before fading out. I will never forget that brief, brilliant sight! Things like that are such a gift to see.

Dare I take it as a good omen? In any case, it was a very good way to end a night, and Irene and I have put it on our agenda for tomorrow night, as well as next week, for the Leonids.

Also: ἑρπετὰ ἐν πεδίῳ

“Snakes on a plain.”

lulz brought to you by my καλὸς διδάσκαλος.