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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
[…] 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 […]
“Approaching may be our most profound vocation. Perhaps we do nothing else in our lifetimes but hedge round, surround things and people with greater or lesser precision, more or less conscientiously, swerving or brushing past them, at most grasping them for a moment, never arriving anywhere for good, except, at the very last, in the earth.“
Daniël Robberechts | Arriving in Avignon
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