November 2011
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Sappho's 'Hymn to Aphrodite' →
girl-in-a-garden:
- translated by Prof. William Harris
Many colored throned immortal Aphrodita, daughter of Zeus, wile-weaver, I beg you with reproaches and harms do not beat down O Lady, my soul
But come here, if ever at another time My voice hearing, from afar You have ear, and your father’s home leaving ——golden —- you came
Yoking the chariot. And fair, swift Doves brought you over the...
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Peace can only be mine
if I see everything ruined along with me.
– Medea, Seneca 426-7 trans. Emily Wilson (via claerwen)
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What intrigues her is less the metaphysics than the mechanics, the...
– Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee (via childthings)
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