It is with sadness that I note...

That the syllabus requires us to leap ahead in the text-- Tuesday's assignment is 65-68.  We leave our friends contemplating ticks and lice in 57/58 and meet up with them again in 65,  in which we find dogs, Trimalchio giving a slave a piggy-back ride, and the entrance of Habinnas, the guest of honor.   Alas, what we pass over in Latin (but read carefully in English) are some of the best bits of the Cena:  the squirting pastry Priapus, Niceros's werewolf story, and Trimalchio's story about the witches and the changeling boy.  Note, too, the description of his deliciae, Croesus, in 64.  Many of these stories play on the themes of truth/ fiction, inside/ outside,  human/inhuman, mortal/immortal.