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 qtd: Peter Levi
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Apr. 23rd, 2008 @ 02:19 pm 
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“Then again people in endless, almost perpetual training to become priests are encouraged to take seriously all weighty matters. They were so perhaps more in my day than they are now. But that’s because the training in my day was more meaningless, and more endless, than it is now. Now it’s all purposive. Frightful nonsense. In my day it was rather purposeless and went on and on and on. One had a lovely time.”
“I don’t think there’s anything so odd about being a classical scholar. It’s just that most people aren’t classical scholars because they don’t know Greek and Latin, poor things.”
Interviewer: Auden was concerned that the quality of the English language be preserved, and he hoped to help do that with his writing.
Levi: I think it’s nonsense. Do you think Ausonius should have written in Burgundian?
Interviewer: What?
From a 1976 interview with The Paris Review |
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