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IndoorDame
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TheSpineView Like the imagery. 💜 7mo
dabbe 💚🩷💚 7mo
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rwmg
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Mehso-so

A bilingual edition (Greek on the left-hand page, English on the right) of the complete surviving poetry of Sappho, some from papyri and some from quotations by other authors of a line or even just a word. TBH, I didn't find any of it particularly memorable but it was interesting to see just how fragmentary fragments are.

dabbe I want your drink. 🤩 10mo
rwmg @dabbe Terry's Orange milkshake 10mo
dabbe @rwmg Yum! 🤩 9mo
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hissingpotatoes
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4/5⭐ I love that the book includes the facing Greek. The translations are more on the side of faithfully following the literal Greek; while this makes for more awkward-sounding poetry, I really appreciate the accuracy. I read this alongside Rayor's 2023 translation, & it's very interesting to see how they filled in blanks & translated words differently. The commentary on each fragment is great. The two editions necessarily supplemented each other.

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Billypar
Art & Lies | Jeanette Winterson
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Pickpick

Some books you read and know exactly what you think of them. Others you read, puzzle, struggle over, and consider bailing on and off for four months, with final ratings of 0-5 all seeming equally plausible. That was Art and Lies for me. I went with a cautious '4 stars' because it has undeniably beautiful sentences and stretches of ecstatic musings. But it's tough going - like Virginia Woolf, not sure I even know what's going on at times, tough 👇

Billypar Plot? No not really. Three characters with artist names take the train and do lots of thinking, reflecting on their pasts. Handel is a doctor and ex-priest. Picasso is a painter with family problems. Sappho may actually be Sappho reincarnated, but I'm not 100% sure. And if you enjoy poetry about light, you've come to the right place. 1y
Billypar (TW for sexual abuse and rape) 1y
Cinfhen Wonderful review 😁 1y
Centique Yes! I know what you mean - these complicated books with which you end up having both positive and negative experiences. Im like that with To The Lighthouse. Such a good review 🙌 1y
Billypar @Centique Thanks Paula! Yeah, I really enjoyed To the Lighthouse and The Waves overall, but did I enjoy them every time I sat down to read them? Definitely not 🙃 But when they're good, they're very, very good. 1y
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BookmarkTavern
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Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView ! 💖

1. The tagged book! I love Anne Carson‘s translations.
2. I‘m good to go until the books start making me more frustrated than I am invested! Which could be book 2, or could be book 19. 😂
3. I will forever mourn the Discworld books we will never see. ❤️

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Marmie7 I also mourn the fact we will never have another Terry Pratchett book.💙 I'm actually reading Unseen Academicals right now. 1y
TheSpineView You're welcome! 1y
Eggs He was one-of-a-kind😔 1y
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Lauredhel
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1- the Complete Poems of Sappho, c. 550 BCE
2- I have a soft spot for a duology, but I'm also very happy with a long / open ended series if the genre is appropriate for that.
3- The Expanse, though it had to end sometime and that was a good place to end it.

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Billypar
Art & Lies | Jeanette Winterson
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Just read this passage while on the train headed to work 😆

tpixie Yikes! What timing! 2y
nanuska_153 A very depressing way of starting the day 😅 2y
batsy Ooof! 2y
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Billypar @tpixie @nanuska_153 @batsy I feel 'seen' at any rate 🙃 2y
tpixie @Billypar 🌟🌺🩵 2y
Ruthiella Yikes! 😱😂 2y
Reggie Lol I laugh because it feels true. 2y
Billypar @Ruthiella @Reggie It's filled with similar depressingly accurate gems, spoken from a poetic, manic voice. Which is surprisingly fun, lol 2y
Suet624 Yowzer! 2y
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GatheringBooks
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IndoorDame Love her!!! 2y
TheSpineView 😍😍😍 2y
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IndoorDame
Art & Lies | Jeanette Winterson
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Eggs Lovely choice 👍🏼🥰👏🏻 2y
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