Jon Corelis wrote:
> "A woman who concerns herself with poetry should, I believe, either be a
> silent Muse and inspire the poets by her womanly presence, as Queen Elizabeth
> and the Countess of Derby did, or she should be the Muse in a complete sense:
> she should be in turn Arianrhod, Blodeuwedd and the Old Sow of Maenawr Penardd
> who eats her farrow, and should write in each of these capacities with antique
> authority. She should be the visible moon: impartial, loving, severe,
> wise."
>
> -- Robert Graves, The White Goddess
Now the truth is out. He was really a Lovecraft character, or actually
one of Pickman's models. He makes me proud to be able to draw a line
between literate and truly uneducated.
k
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"You have to be a speedy reader, cause there's
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