Also, the Gus-Gus thing makes me want to watch Cinderella again.

It IS very pretty read aloud. I was mad about scansion, in Latin and in English. I miss scansion.

We…no. We never learned declensions that way. On the other hand, I learned my declensions in middle school, and that was before I had a competent Latin teacher, so I was basically teaching myself out of the textbook. I think I missed Latin songs by a few years. But yes, semper ubi sub ubi. That definitely happened.

Did your teachers make you learn songs to remember declensions? Like first declension set to Tea for Two. Oh! and then there was the whole semper ubi sub ubi thing.

It did, it did! I am so pleased I bought it!

I hope you can at least get it from the library, even if you don’t buy it. It’s well worth a read. And yes, my Latin teacher was marvelous. She was one of the best teachers I’ve ever had (maybe the best?).

I forgot to mention one more thing. I loved this description of yours, of the book – “Nox feels assembled rather than written, almost more like an artifact than a book.”