Phenomenon

September 20, 2024

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Nothings

It seems to me that space is the same as divinity

entity

he obeys you

And you laughed today, it was only me

a heart in his chest,

Because I see you in the rain, you call me

if it is but they did not speak a word

my watch,

what are you listening to?

† everywhere with a cold sweat, it is shivering

They played wildly, but who’s better

emmi, the oil-free one

phenomenon

Machine-generated (mis)translation of Sappho’s fragment 31

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  1. Mambo No. 5 – Christian Molenaar
    October 26, 2024

    […] a pronoun (ottis) so ambiguous scholars have never agreed on its precise meaning; a few weeks ago, when I ran Sappho’s fragment through a digital translation, the word in question was reduced merely to “entity.” (The digital translation produced […]

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