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@sentantiq

7 years

“Do well and live earnestly” Εὖ πράττειν καὶ Σπουδαίως ζῆν. #Epicurus

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10 months

Maybe don't listen to them then

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Human Skulls Suggest Necromancy In Roman-Era Cave Near Jerusalem | IFLScience

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Me, every time someone says 'Homer' 'wrote' the Iliad and the Odyssey

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The modern labors of Herakles

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OFFICER TACKLES PIG: After two days of avoiding police, a rouge pig was taken into custody by a Grantsville police officer on Thursday. Read more:

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Too early but still.... #caturday

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3 years

Polyphemos and Odysseus like...

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ODYSSEUS was a TERRIBLE PERSON. He was a TYRANT. He betrayed every ideal he ever claimed to stand for. He was a shameless pathological liar who killed millions of people for his own insatiable vanity. He is literally one of the worst people in history.

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In an accident of scheduling and hilarious twist of fate, Hermes is getting neutered on the same day I am getting a vasectomy. Updates (on Hermes) and thematic testaments to follow.

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Ok, one more thread on Achilles and Odysseus and how we should read Homer then I promise I will chill The reason I am profoundly unchill about this is the confusion of rich epic narrative for simple paradigmatic propaganda

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6 years

“Having drunk much, eaten much, and talked a lot of shit about people, here lie I, Timocreon of Rhodes.” #Simonides

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4 years

Thesis: The average 18 year old in say Argos in BCE 800 (the the so-called “Greek Dark Ages”) had performed more sacrifices, had more siblings die, memorized more epic poetry, and knew more swordplay, spear-throwing, and wine-drinking than the average University student today.

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Iphigenia at Aulis

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Unpopular opinion: the best thing young people can do early in their careers is to follow the auguries of twin doves, discover and enter the sacred grove, and kill the aging priest who guards it, claiming the golden bough

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Spouse spilled catnip on the floor. 10 minutes ago Hermes was trying to eat the dishwasher. Now he has retired to the empire of his mind, perhaps imagining what it is like to be a bat.

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5 years

Oh my god, I have *literally* dreamt of this moment.

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5 years

Hard to account for Shakespeare’s unpopularity among high school students in light of gems like this.

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Βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ, βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ. Βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ, βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ. Βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ, βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ.

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3 years

Most reprehensible thing I have seen on a place of worship in the Boston area

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5 years

Florence has a lot of sculptures, but none of them rival this:

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2 years

"Goddess, Sing the rage of Pelian Achilles, for $7.99 a month"

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6 months

The Santaur makes his annual return

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4 years

Saying frozen 2 is better than frozen is like saying the Odyssey is better than the iliad. 1. One can't exist without another 2. Each appeals to different life stages 3. You can change your mind Signed, a Homerist who has seen Frozen 100 times and cried at Frozen 2

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3 years

How it started How it's going [14 years today]

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4 years

How are you supposed to teach Latin when the old Learning Management System censors every instance of “cum”?

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5 years

“States fail when they cannot distinguish fools from serious men” τότ’ ἔφη τὰς πόλεις ἀπόλλυσθαι, ὅταν μὴ δύνωνται τοὺς φαύλους ἀπὸ τῶν σπουδαίων διακρίνειν. #Antisthenes #US #UK

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4 years

2020 is starting to make me think that maybe strange women lying in ponds distributing swords may be worth a try for a more stable form of government

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3 years

So, um. US: 1. Lockdown 8 weeks. No classes. 2. Send everyone universal income checks 3. Clear vaccines for kids 4. Create free mobile vaccine units 5. Re-open when majority of kids are vaccinated Print the money to do it. We are going to pay more in life and loss if we don't

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λέων, ὁ: “lion” λεοντώδης: “lion-like” θυμολέων: “lion-hearted” #RIPJohnLewis

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"Odysseus is not a historical person" Friends, I respectfully submit that a thing's positive historicity, factuality, or 'realness' is less important than the impact of the idea of a thing

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3 months

has anyone done this yet

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5 years

#ClassicsTwitter can play too...

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3 years

I just found my son (9) crying in a pillow fort. When I asked him what was wrong he said, "what if we all get sick or something--who will take care of Layla? she can't even eat on her own yet" I hugged him and he kept crying and if anyone needs me I'll be in a pillow fort.

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3 months

um, "carthago delenda est"?

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5 years

I fixed this. #truth . #ClassicsTwitter

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Homer, I see your wine-dark sea and I raise you a

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The streets of Levira, Portugal were flooded with red wine after a distillery’s 2.2 million liter tanks burst.

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3 years

Hermes, waiting for his morning coffee

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5 years

Looking for images to go with a post about farting, I found this bull farting sculpture by Chen Wenling, clearly the pinnacle of human achievement.

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4 years

Boon: a blessing, advantage Boondoggle: a fiasco which at first seems like a boon Can we just start using -doggle as a suffix to describe good seeming things that turn out bad? Giftdoggle Puppydoggle Last night's sexdoggle Etc etc

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“Socrates, when asked what is sweetest in life, said “education, virtue, and the investigation of the unknown” Σωκράτης ὁ φιλόσοφος ἐρωτηθεὶς τί ἥδιστον ἐν τῷ βίῳ εἶπε· „παιδεία καὶ ἀρετὴ καὶ ἱστορία τῶν ἀγνοουμένων”. #GnomVat

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Question for English teachers and composition teachers at all levels: If you are teaching students not to ever write in the first person, why? This lesson generates some pretty wretched prose and thoroughly traumatized writers.

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2 years

Has anyone tried to scam the crypto community with the Voynich manuscript yet?

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3 years

Just a Girl: Being Briseis I received this essay to post anonymously yesterday and I can't stop thinking about it....about how many times I've read and taught the epic insensitively, about how the bodies we inhabit or the lives we live change the poem...

Just a Girl: Being Briseis

Note: This essay was sent to me to be published anonymously. It is a powerful reminder that who you are fundamentally changes what the Iliad means and that the loudest voices are often the abusive …

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4 years

Are you, like, just here all the time now?

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7 months

The Homeric texts we possess should be dated centuries later than most popular theories.

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What opinion about Dating will have you like this?

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"Hips don't lie" is actually a riffing on presocratic relativism, an attack against mind-body dualism. In this essay I will...."

Shakira

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4 years

I just graduated from my 4 week Ancient Philosophy course with the University of Pennsylvania ( @Penn ). I know... my hobbies are very impractical, but it took a lot of hours after the kids were asleep. Thank you Plato and predecessors for all the "fun" over the past month!

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#WorldsNotAuthors My children are secretly making holiday gifts for each other. I walked into the office and found my daughter writing a Hogwarts acceptance letter for her brother, because he wants magic to be real. 1/

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4 years

Them: what do you teach? Me: Ancient Greek. Them [every time]: it's all greek to me! Me: [dead souled stare of Achilles over patroclus' tomb] yeah [We never talk again]

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"If we want young people to act like odysseus" 1. Lose 12 ships of men 2. Cey on the beach for 7 years 3. Kill 108 people qt home 4. Let son hang enslaved women 5. Get ready for war with own people 6. Go traveling until meeting people who mistake an oar for a windowing fan

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4 years

This crisis becomes simultaneously stupider and more horrifying every day, but nothing could be more stupid and more horrifying than Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, who is now claiming that "there are more important things than living." #GOPDeathCult

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After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.

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Son (12) got in minor trouble in school for clicking his pen too much. He and a friend learned Morse code and have been communicating across the classroom. Can't really get upset

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#PSA M-M: Hyphen (-), to make compounds M–M: En-dash (–), to separate spans of numbers (i.e. 1–9) M—M: Em-dash (—), to separate ideas instead of using parenthesis. Seducer of authors; scourge of copyeditors Eminem: Rapper, recent collaborator with Ed Sheeran

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6 years

I am %100 sure that local, free libraries made my life as it is today possible. Give me a RT or response if that is your story too. #

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6 years

This is insane super-capitalism gone wild. Local libraries are a great tradition without which many would have no access to literature, news, information and more Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money via @forbes

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Just when I thought I was going to take a break there's more. just a reminder: Odysseus suffered because he blinded the cyclops and boasted; his men died because of this; the suitors showed up at his home because of it

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Ok, one more thread on Achilles and Odysseus and how we should read Homer then I promise I will chill The reason I am profoundly unchill about this is the confusion of rich epic narrative for simple paradigmatic propaganda

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πηός, ὁ (pêos): “in-law” πέος, τό (peos): “penis”

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3 years

So, like this is definitely 10 mg, right?

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Amber bear amulet of neolithic hunter, 1700-650 BC, found in Slupsk, Poland. #archaeohistories

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How did it *just* occur to me that the word ‘ramification’ is from ramus (branch) and facere (to make)? I know that I am not the only for whom obvious classical etymologies for English words suddenly become clear. What ancient etymologies escaped your notice for a long time?

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Not prefering the Iliad or the odyssey but a secret third thing

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An Ocean's 11 style heist of the century film where a rogue's gallery of archaeologists and activists infiltrate the British Museum and repatriate the Parthenon sculptures. #creativeAct

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Just unintentionally wrote "The Iliad promises to be all the rage this year" and if that pun's not peak Homer dad I don't know what is

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3 years

Happy Birthday to anyone celebrating today, but especially to Hermes. He's 2 years old!

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3 years

Hermes asks not what is a monday but why

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A little more: Odysseus is not a "hero" or anti-hero. Those terms are anachronistic He is a "man" (andra) at the beginning of the epic, apoem thematically part of exploring the END of the race of heroes Audiences are supposed to think about how he fucked up his life

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So I know a little about Homer. But that doesn't mean I know everything. But ancient Greek epic was dialogic, engaging with audiences to create dynamic meaning, to challenge thought, to provide vehicles for difficult questions The Odyssey was/is not about emulation

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I committed the unpardonable offense of offering blueberry yogurt when strawberry was desired.

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Following up on @SarahEBond 's tweet: a list of reasons why Campbell's monomyth is problematic 7 themes.

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Your periodic reminder

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People who claim that Odysseus is one thing (a moral hero, ha!) or Achilles is one thing (a man of honor!) are laboring under the idea that epic offers simple paradigmatic lessons

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The reason Miltiades' strategy was so effective at Marathon is that it kept the Persians separated from the airports

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A bit inflammatory, but we all know it's true.

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“Pythagoras confined himself in an underground hole and told his mother to tell people that he had died.” ἤδη γὰρ εἶδον πολλάκις Πυθαγόρας καθείρξας ἑαυτὸν ἐν ὑπογείῳ λογοποιεῖν ἐκέλευσε τὴν μητέρα ὡς ἄρα τεθνηκὼς εἴη #ScholiontoSophocles #FridayFeelings

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If you have any doubt about AJ's fundamental politics, look no closer than their choice to make hiring a diversity and inclusion officer an April fool's joke. Classy classicists here

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It is Hermes' Birthday today! Here's a picture from when he first came home

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HAPPY ENDING HERMES was under a neighbor's she'd. A phone call out us on the case!

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Friends: Hermes is missing! He somehow escaped in the night. We are looking for him, but if you have any special cat finding powers, let me know! [hopefully he is still somewhere in Medford, MA]

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Homeric poetry is like a philosophical dialogue, a tragedy, or a piece of visual art: it invites audiences to explore its narrative through their experiences, and to compare their experiences to epic

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Wow. Ok. Unfollowing now. Was a big fan of his adventures and tricks, was not aware he used them to go around blinding lonely giants and murdering young men and women in his home

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Homeric epic is deeply aware that narrative misfires and can be interpreted in dangerous ways: it repeatedly features heroes telling each other stories from the past and disagreeing, failing to live up to them, or twisting them to new meanings

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Day 11: we have a bath

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“Pythagoras confined himself in an underground hole and told his mother to tell people that he had died.” ἤδη γὰρ εἶδον πολλάκις Πυθαγόρας καθείρξας ἑαυτὸν ἐν ὑπογείῳ λογοποιεῖν ἐκέλευσε τὴν μητέρα ὡς ἄρα τεθνηκὼς εἴη #ScholiontoSophocles

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My son just said: "At school they have "Ubi Fera Sunt" but it is in English, isn't that weird?"

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This guy owns this site and is calling for?

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When douchesnozzles like E.Musk long for a Sulla, let's consider what they're longing for: internecine murder. “The evils of the civil war seemed to have ended when they were rekindled by #Sulla ’s cruelty." via @sentantiq

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Reminder: Achilles prayed for his people to die, mutilated a corpse, and sacrificed captured youths; Odysseus lost 12 ships of men, killed 108 citizens at home, had 12 enslaved women hanged, and mutilated an enslaved man born to his household Feature not bug of the "west"

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Who gets breakfast first?

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Epic is supposed to be a vehicle for increasing our understanding of the self, of our engagement with communities, of our engagement with time. It does not give clear or simple lessons

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Seriously what kind of cat sits like this

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Well, um, #Homer wasn't an actual person.... [Ducking, hiding, changing name]

Myk - 🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 - Here To Help

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Please quote this tweet with a thing that everyone in your field knows and nobody in your industry talks about because it would lead to general chaos.

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I have taught Myth for nearly 20 years and spent much of thinking about Problems with Campbell's Monomyth all while living through an obscene number of mass shootings. The problem is in the stories we tell. via @sentantiq

A School Massacre and Toxic Heroism

The Story and School Massacres “For, that which is instilled into young minds will set deep roots, and will not easily be removed by any force afterward.” Nam quod teneris mentibus insitum est, alt…

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Every time I see a school or a civic entity cut the humanities and the arts and double down on work training and STEM, I anticipate more of this because we are undermining any opportunities for people to learn and think deeply about narrative and our lives together

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“Socrates, when asked what is sweetest in life, said “education, virtue, and the investigation of the unknown” Σωκράτης ὁ φιλόσοφος ἐρωτηθεὶς τί ἥδιστον ἐν τῷ βίῳ εἶπε· „παιδεία καὶ ἀρετὴ καὶ ἱστορία τῶν ἀγνοουμένων”. #GnomVat

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Herakles and the Nemean lion

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Somehow, Layla is 3 today! How it started. How it's going.

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We have been confused about why the vacuum robot is always out of charge or randomly going on. Turns out at night Mowgli figured out how to start it and uses it as a toy

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“States fail when they cannot distinguish fools from serious men” τότ’ ἔφη τὰς πόλεις ἀπόλλυσθαι, ὅταν μὴ δύνωνται τοὺς φαύλους ἀπὸ τῶν σπουδαίων διακρίνειν. #Antisthenes

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Quick. What's the opportunity cost of wonder?