Chapman has a slender little volume called Lucian, Plato, and Greek Morals that has the following scrawled in red pencil underneath the title page:
"Is this book a practical joke?"
It turns out that John Jay Chapman was as fond of the Second Century A.D. satirist (and inventor of the science fiction genre) Lucian as I am, though it appears that not everyone here at Harvard shared this enthusiasm. Nevertheless, I can't wait to read it...
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