I am known as Mr. Lira

Hi! My full name is too long to write here, but I am known as Mr. Lira here at the college. I adore poetry, love theater, flirt with music and maintain an unhealthy relationship with pure mathematics. St. John’s is a place like no other; a probable “no-place”, but hopefully you will find that out for yourselves. Currently, I am exploring the infinite with Newton’s Principia, my new love, and reading Madame Bovary in my preceptorial. God, precptorials are so much fun! Such a careful reading, that is, I will have read the novel twice by the end of the semester, while constantly referencing the French text! For those of you who don’t know, preceptorials are the only sort of “electives” at St. John’s open to Juniors, Seniors and Graduate Students. The texts studied in precepts are for the most part pretty amazing, and they are, of course, the tutors’ choices. We had some interesting choices this year, such as: ‘the principles of geology’, ‘general theory of employment, interest, and money,’ and Borges’ Ficciones.