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 vinham lendo e ensinando há centenas de anos: Virgílio, Ovídio, Chaucer, Petrarca. Com cada artigo científico que publicava, contribuía para o conhecimento humano, com cada vez menos sacadas brilhantes.