Friar: Humor’s a relief! It shows the truth.Every Laugh’s a window on the void—crack jokes with me, and by them crack the world’sfacade to show the bedlam underneath!…Rabelais: Humor is no chaos, but the verydrip and flow of everything, the stickyfluid carrying life up from stodgysoil to all these many moistening bodies…humor is our unity, […]
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I recently read the revised edition of Stanley Lombardo’s translation of the Phaenomena of Aratus (titled The Sky Is Our Song: The “Phaenomena” of Aratus) and thoroughly enjoyed it. This edition is lovely, too. Spencer A. Klavan has extended comments of the poem in New Criterion titled “A phenomenal poet” and it is currently not behind […]
Love Wisdom, say I, but not with what’s above!She’s a pretty girl, and ripe; lover herwith your body, your skin and bones, the gurgleof your gut; love her with your rutting heart.We’re all little pigs, rooting in the dirtafter something—the slut, the priest, the lord,magister, mother, student, tenant, doctor,bishop, king, pope—saints and sinnersall rooting in […]