Great pic— I would love to be on that street right now. Good Night!

My Childhood 💖

Soothing!

Enjoy 🤍

Kindle

thanks— will check it out.

Love this 💖 #Aristotle

Poetics I, xvi-xviii

4.3.3 The poet should construct his plots in outline first

“As for his stories, both those [already] made up and those he composes himself, he should set them out as universals, and only then introduce episodes, i.e. extend them. I mean that he might investigate what is universal in them in the following way, e.g. [the story] of Iphigeneia: "a girl has been sacrificed and disappears in a way unclear to the people who sacrificed her. She is set down in another country, where there is a law that foreigners must be sacrificed to the goddess; this is the priesthood she is given. Some time later it turns out that the priestess' brother arrives…”

The fact that the oracle commanded him to go there, for some reason that is not a universal, and his purpose [in going], are outside the plot. "After he arrives, he is captured. When he is about to be sacrificed [by his sister], he makes himself known [to her]", either as Euripides or as Polyidus arranged it, "by saying as would be probable that it was not only his sister's fate to be sacrificed, but his own too. This leads to the rescue." After this [the poet] should now supply the names and introduce episodes. Take care that the episodes are particular [to the story], e.g. in Orestes' case his madness through which he is captured, and his rescue by means of the purification.

In dramas the episodes are brief, but epic is lengthened out with them. The story of the Odyssey is not long: "someone has been away from home for many years, with Poseidon on the watch for him, and he is alone. Moreover affairs at home are such that his wealth is being consumed by [his wife's] suitors, and his son is being plotted against [by them]. He arrives after much distress, makes himself known to some people, and at-tacks. He is rescued, his enemies annihilated." This is what is proper [to the Odyssey]; its other [parts] are episodes.”

#bookstr #Poetics

One More discovery for today— Book Plates in Japan ✨ Yes— that is a beautiful mermaid!

#Bookstr

These are beautiful poems to read at a museum — art & history references.

“Near the Sacrificial Site

Paestum, 1997

On an afternoon like this

I want permission to forget

the many varieties of cruelty.

I want the only figures of the past to be ancestors of these wild

poppies, of this chestnut tree

whose blossoms break through the hardest wood. I know that cruelty flourishes just down the road, persistent as these gnarled roots which overrun

the partly ruined woods.

But on an afternoon like this-

Old Master clouds and waterfalls of light-

I ask for the mercies of amnesia.

I want to open myself to the sun

which I know has killed

with its munificence,

to smell the foxglove

with no thought of the poison

hidden in its leaf.”

~Linda Pastan

#bookstr #poetry

Found my work of reflection for today. Maurice Brazil Prendergast’s *Picnic* & I enjoyed the mirrors 🤎

#Pittsburgh #Art #CarnegieMuseum

thank you for this explanation!

💖

I noticed when I sign in Coracle they recommend getting a browser extension before sharing private key. But I’m usually in my phone.

I have no idea what $bat coins are… and no zaps for me until I understand Nostr better. I support Bitcoin though 🤍

I like going back & forth between Clients. Chrome App, Safari, or what is the best browser to use on an iPhone?

Cheers! 💜 I’ve always wanted to participate in a “name day” celebration— I regret not doing one for my son since it’s part of his father’s family tradition.

gorgeous 💖

And I ADORE this book by Clarice Lispector: https://www.cityofasylumbooks.org/book/9780811232210

I cried when I read *Minor Detail* — such an important story though. https://www.cityofasylumbooks.org/book/9780811229074