#ovid’s metamorphoses; trans. david raeburn by the way. rereading for the first time since... I left uni I think?
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#I would fuck up the underlining on a passage I like wouldn’t I. a curse from god perhaps. ignore the ugliness pleaseee#ovid’s metamorphoses; trans. david raeburn by the way. rereading for the first time since... I left uni I think?#anyway. birth as violent and violence as birth: the world (mother) at the nexus of both#I always like ancient & often theological explanations for the existence of human violence; the rationalisations and the excuses#all ways to me of coping with societies steeped in blood; all products of callous regional conditioning. and still human in the searching#“the demon of madness is holding dominion the wide world over”; contextually living through the birth of an empire#seeing the world through imperial eyes means not seeing the world at all#classics#log
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