
29 July 2008, 2.07 CET
What passes for intramural athletics in the Humanities (whether now or in the nineteenth century):
“Student, sovereign in a realm without bounds, freest of all free creatures, richest of the rich, because of his incredible credit, creature standing outside creation, for whom the sun does not make the day, nor the darkness make the night! For him, his cap is the Phrygian bonnet, the cap of liberty, his cane Hercules’ club, his servant a helot, only worthy to lick the mire from his defiled boots!”
[Via BibliOdyssey]