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🦋 Stesichoros
That story is not true.
You never sailed in the benched ships.
You never went to the city of Troy.
-- Stesichoros, "Palinode": quoted in Phædrus.
I've been reading some of the introductory material to Autobiography of Red this morning -- it is really interesting and makes me want to read this book sometime. Carson asserts (actually I am not sure if she is writing this introductory material in her own voice: maybe "Carson's narrator asserts") that "Stesichoros released being" by separating Homer's incantatory adjectives from the nouns to which they were attached, by inventing descriptive language.Here we touch the core of the question "What difference did Stesichoros make?" When Gertrude Stein had to sum up Picasso she said, "This one was working." So say of Stesichoros, "This one was making adjectives."
posted afternoon of Friday, October 10th, 2008
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i think people are afraid of it.
they dont understand it.
but i dont understand it
and i am not afraid of that.
she says,
"here, shake."
Go on.
posted afternoon of March 14th, 2009 by sienna
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