Venus, without quitting her station, attracts her husband Mars to her …

December 19th, 2010

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December 19th, 2010

Mars, 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.

December 19th, 2010

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December 18th, 2010

Judith Albert

This seemingly inedible food, circulating throughout its body, renews its hidden powers

December 18th, 2010

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It lives on iron and feeds on its inflexible nature

December 17th, 2010

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Miracle

December 15th, 2010

Barbara Ellmerer

December 14th, 2010

Claudian’s Magnes: Obscure and Shining

December 14th, 2010

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Headfarm: Problems of Translation

December 13th, 2010

No 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.

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