Christian Molenaar

Tag: aristophanes

  • Summer Stars

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    Maybe it was secretly a blessing that night when you couldn’t see the Big Dipper. Read more

  • The Torment of Another’s Grief

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    After a Canzoni by Pound, After a Ballata by Dante Ezra Pound might be stalking me from the past. Read more

  • Not Unlike a River

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    “Et huiusmodi stantiae usus est fere in omnibus cantionibus suisArnaldus Danielis et nos eum secuti sumus.”Dante, De Vulgari Eloquio, II. 10. Read more

  • Mambo No. 5

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    The match could not have been more perfect: our two closest friends in the world — my best friend of fifteen years, your former college roommate, both simultaneously single at last. After half a decade of half-secret crushes, missed connections and ill-timed rendezvous, the timing was finally right. And a month later it was over. Read more

  • Soon We’ll Be Eating

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    The longest word in the Greek language is λοπαδο­τεμαχο­σελαχο­γαλεο­κρανιο­λειψανο­δριμυπο­τριμματο­σιλφιο­καραβομελιτο­κατα­κεχυμενο­κιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττο­περιστεραλεκτρυονοπτο­κεφαλλιο­κιγκλοπελειο­λαγῳοσιραιο­βαφητραγανο­πτερύγων. Read more

Thought:

“Great literary pieces are great because, among other things, they are in permanent polemics with their readers, some of whom are writers, and who are able to themselves express creatively their sense of this literary affair. Great literary pieces have that specific magical quality of provoking readers to rewrite them, to make a new literary project out of them.”

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