Suidas Vs. Paalinod Poem Analysis

Well, this is something I learned rather, ” Suidas s.v. palinoda:”Counter song” or “saying the opposite of what you said before”.
“Like honey is the sleep of the just.”
Just funny: “She had all her breasts on this evening.” and “Somehow Geryon made it to adolescence.”
“Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition”
“Sometimes a journey makes itself neccessary.”
I’m not using quotes any more. You know the rest of this blog is not my own words, but Anne Carson’s.

As in childhood we live sweeping close to the sky and now, what dawn is this.

This idea that your lungs will explode if you can’t reach the surface—lungs don’t explode they collapse without oxygen I have it from Virginia Woolf.

Reality is a sound you have to tune into it not just keep yelling

…..in that blurred state between awake and asleep when too many intake valves are open in the soul. Like the terrestial crust of the earth which is proportionately 10 times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul is a miracle of mutual pressures. Millions of kilograms of force pounding up from earth’s core on the inside to meet the cold air of the world and stop as we do, just in time.

Photography is disturbing, said Geryon. Photography is a way of playing with perceptual relationships.

” Among the indigineous folk of Tierra del Fuego, were the Yamana, which means as a noun ‘people not animals’ or as a verb ‘to live, breathe, be happy, recover from sickness, become sane’. Joined as a suffix to the word for hand it denotes “friendship”. Later: “The Yamana, whose filth and poverty, persuaded Darwin, passing in his Beagle, that they were monkey men unworthy of study, had fifteen names for clouds and more than fifty for different kinds of kin. Among their variations of the verb ‘to bite’ was a word that meant ‘to come surprisingly on a hard substance when eating something