http://beccajcampbell.com/tag/creative-struggles June 15th, Dulles Airport. Starting Out of Africa, which features the untranslated epigraph EQUITARE, ARCUM TENDERE, VERITATEM DICERE. I have to admit it’s hard not to love anyone who starts a book with those words. “To ride a horse, to shoot the bow, to speak the truth.” It’s from Herodotus, describing the Persians – he […]
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Isak Dinesen – or, Karen von Blixen.
20-Jun-15Ibn Ishaq, Herodotus of Early Arabia.
25-Oct-12howsoever On the Wizard-of-Oz-like Chosroes, king of Persia: Now Chosroes used to sit in his audience chamber which contained his crown. According to reports his crown was like a huge grain-measure with rubies, pearls, and topazes set in gold and silver, suspended by a golden chain from the top of the dome in his hall of […]
The Wooden Wall.
20-Nov-09Sawing and sawing wood. “When the foe shall have taken whatever the limit of Cecrops Holds within it, and all which divine Cithaeron shelters, Then far-seeing Jove grants this to the prayers of Athena: Safe shall the wooden wall continue for thee and thy children.”