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Venus, without quitting her station, attracts her husband Mars to her …
Sunday, December 19th, 2010Mars, who strikes cities with his bloody spear, and Venus, who changes human cares to ease, share a common shrine and temple built of gold. Each deity has his own image; Mars, a polished iron statue, Venus, one fashioned of the loadstone.
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
This seemingly inedible food, circulating throughout its body, renews its hidden powers
Saturday, December 18th, 2010It lives on iron and feeds on its inflexible nature
Friday, December 17th, 2010Claudian’s Magnes: Obscure and Shining
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010Headfarm: Problems of Translation
Monday, December 13th, 2010No one here at Headfarm reads Latin fluently. Nevertheless, Magnes forces the others to read the Latin poem of Claudian and not only the English translation. So they start to look for a way through the text using a dictionary, a tiring and “stony” way, but it offers a strange joy.
The joy of spending time in a crystal shop. Now every word seems to have a unique kind of appearance.
Judith Albert
Saturday, December 11th, 2010