To feel anything deranges you

He has been...

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how it feels like to not live up to your potential

The subsequent reputations of Sappho and Corinna are instructive for students of women's literature and for women practitioners of the art. At the time when Corinna was starting to enjoy a minor succès d'estime, Sappho's personal life came under virulent attack, for it was precisely then that she began to be maligned as a homosexual.33 This sudden hostility to the supreme female literary figure of antiquity may signal a major shift in attitude toward women writers: they were now to be judged favorably to the degree that male readers could find them psychologically congenial. Modern reactions are analogous, even though the relative popularity of the two poets may seem to have been reversed. Nowadays Sappho is of course recognized as an artist of the first rank, whereas Corinna , if she is noticed at all, is condemned as dull. Yet a morbid fascination with Sappho as a sexual deviate continues to excite the scholarly imagination and runs like a lavender thread through much recent discussion of her work. By comparison, Corinna may seem dull to us because she is less exotic. In each case critics would be responding to these women poets not as poets but as women, and subliminally as objects of sexual fantasy. That is scarcely fair to either one, and particularly hard on Corinna, whose adoption of a persona sanctioned by Greek patriarchal mores demanded the suppression of those very traits that give the Sapphic persona its singular interest.

2007 eBird gem

#interesting to compare to tragedy and the convoluted and moderately ridiculous recognition mechanisms playwrights come up with #between siblings separated since one was a baby #and each time the recognition mechanism can only be something that's not really ABOUT either sibling #not like how the bed is about odysseus or the scar is about odysseus #like. orestes has his father's ring. orestes knows what's hanging in the palace at argos. orestes has a scar from falling as a kid. #none of those things actually SAY anything about orestes #because his sisters don't know any of the things that there are to say about orestes. because they don't know orestes to recognize him.

please, my dog, he is sick