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"Three parts out of the eight." Aug 12, 2021 06:50PM

 
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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

 
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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

 
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“All these cousins can start a sentence in one language and finish it in another. They need these languages as the family travels to Odessa, to St. Petersburg, to Berlin and Frankfort and Paris. They also need these languages as they are denominators of class. With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home everywhere.”
Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

“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.”
Michael Francis Atiyah

Mikhail Bulgakov
“...a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.”
Mikhail Bulgakov, Мастер и Маргарита

Barry Lopez
“Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.”
Barry Lopez

Alistair MacLean
“The intolerance of ignorance, not wanting to know – that is the last real frontier on earth.”
Alistair MacLean, The Last Frontier

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