Too much information
Dante anticipated the age in which we are drowned in facts, fake and otherwise. Note his observation of our being...
Do what a hero must
Naturally, any would-be hero or heroine needs to set sail, or how are they to prove their worth? Clive James,...
The urge of bees
A charming way to convey the genesis of ideas or desires, likening them to the urge of bees to make...
Of sisters dissimilar
Dante meets the two sisters in Purgatory, and Leah describes, with Dantesque pithiness, the difference between them.
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The secret of surprise
A pithy tip from one of the masters, succinctly conveyed in Clive James' translation. It's certainly given me food for...
Bat-haunted cave
In general, I would run a mile from anything bat-haunted - apparently random, erratic flight patterns bring out some primeval...
As the falcon flies
Even the rhythm of this simile conveys something of a great bird's single, confident swoop to land precisely on a...
As it sounded, so it looked
In the preface to his marvelous translation of Dante, Clive James mentions the poet's pithiness. I can't judge it in...
The strangest of times
Been enjoying the rhyming recitals of Probably Tomfoolery, and in particular this one, 'The Strangest of Times', see him perform...
Scum-skinned tide
Something alarmingly contemporary about this polluted surface in Dante's Inferno, especially when he discerns, through the miasma, dead souls fleeing.
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Merry Christmas dear kind readers
Dear Kind Readers,
WritingRedux wishes you a Merry Christmas if you celebrate it, and in any case a hefty dose...
Poems for my family 004 – Durrell
Listening time: under 5 minutes.
Durrell has long been a favourite writer and poet. When I first read his Alexandria...
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