The Imaginal and the Poetic
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The Imaginal and the Poetic
A dilatory exchange with David Armstrong
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.
The Imaginal and the Poetic
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.