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by thisrod 2117 days ago
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.