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My second wife often complained, although grew to accept, that I devoted insufficient time to my marriage and to shared activity together. In my retirement this changed a little—for the positive—as we came to spend three or four hours together every day. It is perhaps a matter of personal taste whether one attributes my drive first as a student, then as a teacher and finally as a writer and as a Baha’i to personal ego or a genuine commitment to my various roles, roles to learn, to educate and inspire people about learning and to respond to the critical needs of our time.
Undoubtedly there were elements of all these motivations present at different stages of my life-span. Retirement also brought a greater element of control over my life. Parents, teachers, employers and students had a great deal to say about my life until about the age of sixty. Then the only person I had to please to any significant extent was my wife and, by the age of sixty, I had that worked out, if not entirely to her satisfaction, at least enough to provide the basis for a household harmony and tranquillity so that I could get on with what had become the passion of my life—writing and reading. As the poet Seneca wrote: Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultra: ~ Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man.
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RonPriceAs the poet Seneca wrote: Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultra: ~ Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man.
This is the Classics forum. You didn't have to translate it.
Andy_91This is the Classics forum. You didn't have to translate it.
Specially as hardly a soul ever comes onto this forum anyway.
nutellaSpecially as hardly a soul ever comes onto this forum anyway.
Or if they do they leave again without posting anything.
nutellanutellaSpecially as hardly a soul ever comes onto this forum anyway.Or if they do they leave again without posting anything.
Do you think we'll get a second episode?
Andy_91Do you think we'll get a second episode?
Maybe Ron is too engrossed in literature or, failing that, has kicked the bucket.
nutella Or if they do they leave again without posting anything.
sorry, if you look back you'll see i posted a full stop... i did write a comment but it wasn't very kind or helpful so i tried to delete it, but the final full stop was determined to stay on the page.
andromachesorry, if you look back you'll see i posted a full stop...
Ah! I see it now. I too have found it impossible to delete entire posts when one is using the edit facility.
andromachesurely a 'facility' should be easy to use?
Do you think Ron Price is a relative of Katie Price?
Andy_91Do you think Ron Price is a relative of Katie Price?
Seems unlikely. He can read. Though maybe he's her uncle and the ghostwriter of her books. Who could say?
wrawbyteacherI'll post a salve
Is that a balm or a greeting?
Andy_91RonPriceAs the poet Seneca wrote: Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultra: ~ Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man.This is the Classics forum. You didn't have to translate it.
Αναψυχής χωρίς λiογοτεχνία είναι ο θάνατος και η ταφή ενός ζωντανού. Apologies, I couldn't resist that.
XericistI couldn't resist that.
Geoff Thomas Are you the SI unit?
Whom are you asking?
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