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"I've read the first 65 poems. Now digging into the first few. The first is fascinating. Around 700 CE, one of the founding poems in the tradition, it goes out if its way to concretize the image of "sleeves wet with dew", a trope which refers to tears, giving a well developed setting where it would be perfectly expected that "one clothes" would literally be "drenched with dew". Already commenting on a central trope." — Jul 11, 2021 11:18AM
"I've read the first 65 poems. Now digging into the first few. The first is fascinating. Around 700 CE, one of the founding poems in the tradition, it goes out if its way to concretize the image of "sleeves wet with dew", a trope which refers to tears, giving a well developed setting where it would be perfectly expected that "one clothes" would literally be "drenched with dew". Already commenting on a central trope." — Jul 11, 2021 11:18AM
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"I just downloaded it this morning (isn't that a crude verb to be linked with poetry?) so I've only read a few, but I'm loving it. The first poem is magnificent. So is Lime. None have disappointed." — Jul 11, 2021 10:58AM
"I just downloaded it this morning (isn't that a crude verb to be linked with poetry?) so I've only read a few, but I'm loving it. The first poem is magnificent. So is Lime. None have disappointed." — Jul 11, 2021 10:58AM
“Curiously enough, all these books were not classified according to their language; and this lack of system implied that the captain of the Nautilus had little trouble in reading any of the volumes he might select.”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
“The intolerance of ignorance, not wanting to know – that is the last real frontier on earth.”
― The Last Frontier
― The Last Frontier
“Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: I will give you this powerful machine, it will answer any question you like. All you need to do is give me your soul: give up geometry and you will have this marvelous machine.”
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“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. On the other hand, but more slowly, life has thrown light for me on the meaning of books.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“politicians had to be optimistic; otherwise they wouldn't be politicians.”
― A Coat of Varnish
― A Coat of Varnish
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