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Angie Brenner's avatar

Wait, did you translate these passages from Ovid? This is really wonderful stuff.

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Matthew Battles's avatar

Yes—thanks! I did the translation awhile ago. I thought I might keep going, but translation is *work*! For me at any rate.

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Angie Brenner's avatar

Well thank for that labor. You have made it alive. It seems like entering Ovid’s mind and wresting into your own words the elemental forces of creation has been a cosmogonic process of its own.

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Matthew Battles's avatar

You’re so right—the deep intimacy and entanglement of the living world feels very close in Ovid’s song.

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