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| English: Chick pea and Silene vulgaris stew. (Potaje de garbanzos y collejas) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
I gave a paper on Memorial yesterday; excellent response comments and discussion later on. I may have to rethink
Asius the
chickpea. Well, I do have to rethink him. When I'm writing up the paper I think I may just leave him out and use one of the other 100+ examples where Oswald turns the subject of a simile, in the
Iliad, into the object in Memorial, or vice versa; and discuss as well, of course, why this matters. (Because that's what she's doing in the entire poem: the objects become subjects, over and over, and that's the whole point.)
Spent an hour this evening cutting and pasting the paper into Scrivener. But I do need to go through my notes and consider what else needs to go into the final paper. That's this week's task. Well, after I do a few administrative things I was supposed to do last week, but I was writing this paper ...
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