Salve

Before we begin, a note about the name:

Since my sophomore year of college, the peacock ("pavo" in Latin) has been my own personal symbol of scholarship. The first very serious research paper I did was about the significance of the peacock as displayed in various works of medieval art. I now know, looking back, how terrible a paper that was: how choppy, how unconnected, how under-researched. For some unfathomable reason, I received a passing grade in that class, but ever since, the peacock has been an icon of academia to me and, thus, having entered into the deep end of that world via grad school, my peacockiness has reached unprecedented heights (depths?).

As for "interritus," this again, as you can probably tell, is a Latin tag, in this case meaning "fearless." Once upon a time, there were four female friends possessed of "f" nicknames, which made a great deal of sense at that point. Now, we are Fearless, Faithful, and Fair. I wonder if, during the course of reading this blog, you will judge my own alias fitting.

Now to the meat of the question, the true purpose of the introduction: what will you be writing about, O Fearless Peacock? My answer is--no shock--I'm not sure yet. I have some thoughts for a discussion of some C.S. Lewis books/quotes, perhaps reviews of some of my favorite works of literature, hopefully I'll be able to work my Disney obsession and constant references to my cat in somewhere. But for now, we begin at the beginning.

Welcome.