January 29, 2022:
Like Mephistopheles, Professor Falstaff inadvertently did some good.
The books we read for his classes were always stellar. More than that, he had a way of tossing around titles he thought highly of, which turned out to be equally worthwhile.
This is what I remember coming specifically from him:
- The Interpretation of Dreams [class]
- The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II [class]
- The Man Without Qualities [recommendation]
- The Anatomy of Melancholy [recommendation]
- The Archaeology of Knowledge [recommendation]
- The Alexandria Quartet [recommendation]
- Dispatches [recommendation]