Otherworldly, yes, Peter. I have been reading Ovid's Metamorphoses of late (Charles Martin's recent translation), and I suspect you would love it, if not already, Peter. The planting of the dragon's teeth in the field that gives gestation to the growth of an army of soldiers.
Does anybody here - short of a google search - know the version of Ovid from which Shakespeare would have been familiar, joyfully robbing it from the core, as it were! Can I assume he was reading from the original Latin(??), a Renaissance reproduction of such, or a translation?
Stephen
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Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 2:32 PM
More straight collage
effect than the usual play with letters, as I see it,
Peter, but the sense of the alien visitation is wonderfully strong: is it a
giant bug or a strange machine? And where exactly?
A series of inherent questions dis/played...
Doug
On 13-Apr-09, at 3:26 PM, Peter wrote:
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Latest books:
Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
Ambrose Bierce
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