I read and taught the same classics that people had been reading and teaching for hundreds of years -- Virgil, Ovid, Chaucer, Petrarch -- and with every scholarly article that I published I added to human knowledge in ever-diminishing slivers of insight.
Lia e ensinava os mesmos clássicos que as pessoas liam e ensinavam há centenas de anos — Virgílio, Ovídio, Chaucer, Petrarca — e em cada artigo académico que publicava acrescentava ao conhecimento humano camadas de perspicácia cada vez menores.