"Radovan Karadzic, the 'butcher of Srebernica,' was a physician-poet and one of the last oral composers in the tradition studied by Milman Parry in his quest to understand Homer. Karadzic was performing epic poems with a stringed instrument, the guzla, when captured." --@AmitMajmudar
"SUPPLICATION
The sea took a sailor to its deep,--
His mother, unsuspecting, goes to light
a tall candle before the Virgin Mary
for his speedy return and for fine weather--
and always she cocks her ear to windward.
But while she prays and implores,
the icon listens, solemn and sad, knowing well
that the son she expects will no longer return."
--CP Cavafy (tr Rae Dalven)
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