New Books, New Year

I did finally finish the Roman Catechism. It truly was the best introduction to Catholic thought I have yet read. Perhaps at some point I shall read the catechism from 1994, but I think no major doctrinal changes occurred over the past four hundred years. Perhaps I will check anyway.

Regardless, I am now in the last fortnight of my break. In ten days I shall fly back to Santa Fe and resume studies. During this time I wish to finish the Divine Comedy and Gulliver's Travels, the former on my perennial book list - it is the new year, after all - and the latter for seminar on the 19th. I hope to read the Iliad this or next month, which leaves the Republic or the Physics and The Lord of the Rings.

I have finished the Inferno and the first part of Gulliver's Travels. I like Dante much better than Swift (who can be so scientific about fantasy? It is amusing but tedious), but perhaps I have always preferred his theme to satire - man's search for God is the most important thing on this earth, and few have treated it as powerfully as the Ghibelline poet.