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Encaenia was fun. Philip Pullman and Erwin Hahn were probably the biggest names; as always, the orations were full of elegant Latin and rather witty.

I feel that my life has been enriched by hearing Narnia and His Dark Materials discussed in Latin, anyway. Though it's disconcerting how much the speeches kept reminding me of hagiography (actually this is quite logical: most of my experience with the laudatory Latin style is hagiography).