How could such confirmedly bookish types write an I-love-reading book so fundamentally tone deaf as to why reading can inspire love?

But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.

The best method for the purpose in hand was to employ some one of a character and position suited to get possession of their confidence, and then use it to tone down their religious strictness, and, if circumstances should favor, to disturb the ecclesiastical constitution which they had set up.

The postcard is “not a secret hidden document that nobody can find,” Mr. van der Veen said. “A lot of people have already seen it, and recognize the subject, the motif of tree roots. It was hidden in plain sight.”