Stephen,
Thanks for the Charles Martin tip, I will look for that. I have been working
lately with ideas about multiple digital personalities, alternate avatars,
alternate poetic voices. How many people are we really?
- Peter
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> 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
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
> --- On Mon, 4/13/09, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Alt avatar
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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:
>
> > Alt avatar
> > http://ciccariello.viewbook.com/avatar
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/>
>
> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> The covers of this book are too far apart.
>
> Ambrose Bierce
>
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