My school experience sounds exactly like yours—including the gay and Catullus bits—except it was Adelaide so the state had 10 Latin students instead of 70. I f

My school experience sounds exactly like yours—including the gay and Catullus bits—except it was Adelaide so the state had 10 Latin students instead of 70. I first read the Illiad (Fagels) by torchlight, in a tent by a campfire in a muddy field, next to a cliff where I was risking my neck each day to impress the other boys in the university mountain club. As everyone should.