english: I read and taught the same classics that people had been reading and teaching for hundreds of years -- Virgil, Ovid, Chaucer, Petrarch -- and with every scholarly article that I published I added to human knowledge in ever-diminishing slivers of insight.
non_english: İnsanların yüzlerce yıldır okuyup, öğrettiği Virgil, Ovid, Chaucer, Petrarch-- gibi benzer klasikleri okudum ve öğredim. Yayınladığım her bilimsel makaleyle, insanlığın bilgi birikimine ufak ufak katkı sağladım.