Another interview conducted by the studious (but mercurial) David Armstrong, for his Substack page A Perennial Digression. This time around we discuss poetry, classical and modern, the arts in general, and a few topics in passing (such as baseball). I believe I may have broken my own record for incomplete and fractured sentences in this interview. In certain states of mind, when my thoughts flow more spasmodically than continuously, I become a master of anacoluthia, a condition that my guru Roland calls “discursive stravaging.”
I believe I may have at one point called Persephone (or, really, Proserpina) “Eurydice” when we were discussing Ovid’s genius in depicting the innocence of a victim of violence. This is a slip for which there is no forgiveness, in this age at any rate.
you guys were talking about how Latin literature is every bit as good as Greek literature... I have to agree. Russians really made a great language in Latin
yes David, Latin was created by Russia, also Columbus and Genghis Khan were Russian...this is according to the Multimedia History of Yaroslavl
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1513298097371295747
I’m mainly glad that my periodic crinkling in the background doesn’t seem to have come through: I had burned my hand on a coffee cup right before we started and was nursing it every so often on a frozen burrito.