Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Pollution level red.
 
"As models for their language and style the Hellenistic poets had the entire range of ancient Greek literature to call upon, from heroic times onwards; and they had the great new libraries in which they could read its masterpieces. ...they drew upon it for what it had to offer, adding ingenious variations of their own with elaborate erudition and refined self-consciousness. The trick was to revive the words, phrases and rare poetical usages of authors of the past...and to give them a cunning twist, bringing them together in piquant new combinations and endowing them with novel nuances of meaning." --Michael Grant, From Alexander to Cleopatra (1982)
 
Best zine name: Phosphorus Flourish. Runners-up: Spectacular Diseases, Scree, NeoVictorian Cochlea.
 

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