Watched the movie Agora the other night. Better than its description had made it sound, but of course a bit loose with filling in the imagined events of history. Still, always nice to watch someone's take on the darkest moment in human history, and nice to see someone pin the blame on the spread of Christianity. Not an American movie. But of course really, given the myriad accounts of its destruction, the Library was probably whittled down in a series of separate events. But of course from our perspective, there once was a Library and now it's gone, and because of that our view into the past ends a lot sooner (how much sooner? I am tempted to suppose that we'd have accounts stretching a couple of millennia further back) than it would had its works survived.
Have also been watching the occasional episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, which is a great way to feel nostalgic for a time when such a show stood a chance of being put onto television. Surely I saw some of that show when it originally came on? But I am not having any strong memory stirrings as I watch it. Anyway, although its contents are pretty well-known to a nerd like me, the show was quite well put-together, and even if you have a respectably strong grasp on, say, evolution or astronomy, it's nice to hear someone like Sagan talk about it.
Just a few weeks before my final papers are turned in. Two and a half, I guess. I am almost ready to get started writing them. It is a dreadful prospect.
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