the valley below

ADEIMANTOS: ( hasnt really slept )

but how to transubstantiate these two?

( we stay up too late ) working on poetry.

( we dream in bed at noon ) worked on by poetry.

( what on earth time even are we ? )

SOKRATES: but( the )most( of )them( selves )

( the )one( i - we )wondered( marvelled at )

( admired, honored, worshipped )( the most )

( out of )the many who( which )lie( falsify )( belie ),

μάλιστα δὲ αὐτῶν ἓν ἐθαύμασα τῶν πολλῶν ὧν ἐψεύσαντο,

ADEIMANTOS: ( that shes a staggering girl, caught in his bill ? )

( that she got me some horses to ride on, too . . . )

( that -eve been givn birth ins armor as -ell )

( that she used to sleep with a postcard of a long-lost -

encountered Michelangelo near the bed )

( the terror of it almost ripped, but off ? )

( . . . )

( who comes and goes, we lie in these white rushes

and are kept ) ( they flush her red-stained clothes )

and the blizzard brooding over us would never

allow a lizard near the nest ( may we beauty-call

her breast-of-axe ? ) the countless atmospheres

of winters end, but only when she wants it to

( weve called her Heras arms ) never( self )theless

belying them that wonders him the most:

that we lie ( awake alone ) untouched by him,

that we lie in her palaestra, guarded by countless of them,

OUTIS: never( self )theless( we-)i(-being )

( of the )king opposite( over - against )

( they - we )came( and went )( through )horses

( stallions - mares )( includes a chariot )

and( indeed )( we )kissed( its dyad )knees

( and )seizing( grasping )( capturing them ),

αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ βασιλῆος ἐναντίον ἤλυθον ἵππων

καὶ κύσα γούναθ᾽ ἑλών:

ADEIMANTOS: and with nobodys dyad-heroic grip

we are ( willing the reality to shift )

we are drawn deeper in the river darkening

of some growing protection mantra( -p ),

SOKRATES: this( one )

in which they( we - i )( are )saying

( a song of mourning )( lament )( elegy ),

τοῦτο ἐν ᾧ ἔλεγον

ADEIMANTOS: we are his ( villified, crucified ) destruction:

we are her ( magnified, sanctified ) guardianship:

( and when dark webs, her nape caught in its bill )

we long for you ( the morning to arrive )

as this moment of his-and-hers conception,

OUTIS: ( o )( she-way )( kept me from harm )( safe )( guarded )( pro-

tected )( tended )( as shepherd )( tended )( as maid )

( protected from inclemency )( of weather )( covered-up

the nakedness )( kept back )( detained )( lay in wait

for )( kept watch )( and ward over )( defender as of

a city )( brought out of danger )( saved )( rescued

from troubles )( and in reference to immaterial things )

( held in keeping )( to be the depositary of )( within

the breast )( not to allow me to break out )( kept me

in the mind )( refrained from uttering )( in possession

of )( comprehended )( observed )( carrying out some-

thing resolved upon )( anothers will )( paying constant

attention )( keeping in mind )( arrested

a missile in its course )

( . . . )

( as )( re-middle-voiced-verb )

( . . . )

this(-he )dragged( me )( drew )( pulled )( myself )

( dragging my own body from the fight )( hauled-off )

( drew me away as causing me to quit )( the specified position )

( plucked )( tore at )( the skin from my own bone )( with a view

to demolishing )( pulled about and tore the corpse )( drew me off

the spits )( meat-like )( drew his ship up out of the water )

( dragged down a ship in order to launch her )

( bent and strung and drew his bow )( drew

his sword )( took into his hand the knife )( hoisted )

( ready to weigh )

( . . . )

and( indeed )( both )

( . . . )

showed me mercy( compassion ),

ὁδ᾽ ἐρύσατο καί μ᾽ ἐλέησεν,

ADEIMANTOS: as his-they appears ( with a solution ) for

duplicities of vipers formulae,

his war against her whole embodiment,

the bitterness of stagnant elements,

the left-droppings of its indifferent beak,

the self-harm spectacle they make of her,

without its guardian, by which refuse

of anyone — at all — except with care,

SOKRATES: as( to fall upon )( attack )( lay hands upon )( you )

(-plural )( one ought to proclaim an oracle )( of her )

( one ought to beware )( be discreet )( cautious )

( to take care )( and precautions )( of her )

( one ought to beware of )( pay honour to )( watch

for )( await quietly )( one )must

to be taken hold with care

you( accused - plural ),

ὡς χρῆν ὑμᾶς εὐλαβεῖσθαι

ADEIMANTOS: but ( with an answer ) whose cause resides

in his accused ( in its flame killed ) as apo-trepein rape —

her-keeping-whole his-tearing-him-aparts

( as aitiatike, itself his nom rejects )

how would they make and do, to be took hold

( no sudden blow: the great wings beating ) well?

OUTIS: but on( the )chariot( he-)making me to sit( as for business )

( as )( you put clothes on me )( dresses, suits, shrouds, armour )

to lead( to carry )( to fetch me )( and to bring )

( to carry me as captive for oneself )

( to guide )( to manage )( to educate me )

( to train me )( to draw me out )( let me be drawn )

( to hold )( to celebrate )( to hold account )

( to treat )( believe in me )( to draw

me down )

( . . . )

( as waves )( they break and shiver )( crashed - through )

( and spread - around )

( . . . )

homeward

( . . . )

( the )tear( tears - )pouring( the tear )

( the it - tear )( he - accusative - pouring )( the it - tear ),

(280) ἐς δίφρον δέ μ᾽ ἕσας ἄγεν οἴκαδε δάκρυ χέοντα.

ADEIMANTOS: from all the out-pourings ( just one ) tear

nobody ( accused ) tearing us ( a clear path to follow )

( a trail of tear ) ( as this goats bleeding fearlessness )

nobodys school for celebrated horses

( clear as en - oh ) ( no ),

SOKRATES: lest( by )from( under )me

( you - plural )( would be )deceived

( tricked )( cheated )( beguiled )

( whoopsie ),

μὴ ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ ἐξαπατηθῆτε (17β)

ADEIMANTOS: she says ( just follow the steps )

( as to which he says ) lets let it take us well:

we would not reenact a heartless crime,

OUTIS: ( we are )( she says )( he says )( it says )( truly )( or )( eh )

( sometimes maybe he likes to prove it )

even-indeed( to-by-for )me very( dyad-secretly-she )

( the )many( hims )( they - we )rush at( upon )( assault, assail )

( makin frequent swoops )( to-by-for )the ashwood spears,

( he - they )releasing( hurling - sending - letting - go

uttering - letting loose - throwing - shooting - speeding -

hastening - springing - upon - eager - as desiring - )

( kill, you )to kill,

ἦ μέν μοι μάλα πολλοὶ ἐπήϊσσον μελίῃσιν,

ἱέμενοι κτεῖναι—

ADEIMANTOS: sometimes we feed the rowdiest of gulls,

( souvent nous ressemblons à l’albatros )

sometimes we play with gremlins or typhoons,

( his better falsehood weaker strongholds him )

( but not today, william butler yeats )

( her rabies vaccination up to dates )

sometimes it wears the cloth sack of a men

( so mastered baits the brute blood of the air )

as to which we say ( all will be fine ),

SOKRATES: as( of a )fearful( thing )( deinos )

( marvelous, clever, awesome,

strange, horrible, terrible )

( you )( exaggerate terribleness, you )

( we-)being to speak( gather, pick up )

( count, tell, reckon, tell over, say,

command, mean, plead, sing of ),

ὡς δεινοῦ ὄντος λέγειν.

ADEIMANTOS: for which we sacrificed hi-magi-nary cock

( we feed him neath the dyad-mulberry tree )

for which we let ourselves, kid-napped, to wok

( her dragons tears crashed round her fire-core

some years before ) ( those living mares of ocean )

but only his could staunch his brothers pyre

( so letting in its technique with its power )

yet sip by sip the strangers hearts would melt

( this elegy would wind our way as one )

as to which we say ( all will be good ),

OUTIS: for this(-o dyad-god )( she was binding )( bind, you )

( god-needed-bound )( she was in-need )( need, you )

( the dyad-god )( indeed )( must be-)then,

( for )( they had been )conceived of wrath( provoked to anger )

exceedingly( very overmuch )( extraordinarily ),

δὴ γὰρ κεχολώατο λίην—

ADEIMANTOS: go back to sleep now, she says, and sleep well

and when we wake, again as from eternity

for he sleeps true who well well be, be sure

we sleep ( now sleep ) by-from-under the un-

broken day-breaking armor of swan-song

//

from hymn to Apollo

Apologia

Odyssey XIV

now sleep