very nicely put.
unrelatedly, a friend of mine went by the name of "creakorheuman" on the
internet at one point.
KS
2008/12/19 Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
> I like this quote - if any of you are also on a G-R (Homer, Virgil, Ovid)
> reading immersion:
>
> Reading the Iliad
> is like travelling through a Country uninhabited, where the Fancy is
> entertained with a thousand Savage Prospects of vast Desarts, wide
> uncultivated Marshes, huge Forests, mis-shapen Rocks and Precipices. On
> the contrary, the Aeneid
> is like a well ordered Garden, where it is impossible to find out any
> Part unadorned, or to cast our Eyes upon a single Spot, that does not
> produce some beautiful Plant or Flower. But when we are in the
> Metamophosis, we are walking on enchanted Ground, and see nothing but Scenes
> of Magick lying round us.–Joseph Addison, Spectator 417 (2 June 1712)
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