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    VIII.x. ( from the ashes of this ) darling town ( a phoenix in ) fall colours

    ADEIMANTOS: ( o Sokrates, why have you named

    him fearless? ) ( and why wont he say more? )

    ( even if we ask ) ( poke ) hm-mm.

    ( he still wont speak ) ( his irony

    grows thick as wool ) baaa ( but how

    is this being unafraid? ) ( doesnt he know

    they-we want to hear everything about him? )

    SOKRATES: for( it does )nt have-and-hold( the )nature

    ( growth-origin )( of )the steersman( kubernetes )

    ( they-dyad were steering )

    ( to bind himself )( to be in-need )of the sailors,

    to be ruled( dyad-spider-web )by( from-under him )self.

    οὐ γὰρ ἔχει φύσιν κυβερνήτην

    ναυτῶν δεῖσθαι ἄρχεσθαι ὑφ᾽ αὑτοῦ

    ADEIMANTOS: ( thinks for a while ) ( o kubernetes )

    night falls over the town in a blink ( o sprinkles! )

    ( what has-and-holds your nature, origin, growth? )

    ( where did you come from? ) ( would you show us? )

    we would take you to the spot by the lake,

    ( okay, lets go ) ( and walk around it ) ( one way

    and the other way ) ( but walking anytime we could )

    ( some days the high path on the ridge, some days

    the low ) ( sun, rain, or snow ) ( she found a place

    to listen to herself ) ( in him ) ( we-seeking-we )

    ( we were right there ) ( we were reflection ) ( we

    were seasons ) ( light air and water ) ( burning

    star ) ( so ) ( neither are we a city man ) ( strictly )

    ( nor are we a business person ) ( really? )

    ( cant be ) ( not here ),

    SOKRATES: nor(for)the wise(skilled-clever ones)

    to go(up to)the double-folding-she-doors

    (you will thrust out-of-doors)

    of the wealthy-rich(ones),

    οὐδὲ τοὺς σοφοὺς ἐπὶ τὰς τῶν πλουσίων θύρας ἰέναι,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( in the rebellious phases of my youth )

    we inhale the cellar-like scent in the air,

    ( and we reflect upon the few important years )

    ( sprinkles! ) ( spent waiting for the metro line )

    ( or behind the gynmasium of a public school )

    ( and lets be near the nations capital )

    ( coming-and-going to the man-made-real )

    ( the weird, the wild, the human unpredictable )

    ( for company and fumes to strengthen breadth )

    ( by breath of fog ) ( where sky looks like a cave )

    ( and yes, we walk the razors edge of her )

    where we used to sit smoking as a teenager,

    ( as if self-damage would make her invincible )

    ( after some boy had said her joy was hideous ),

    SOKRATES: but still he( refining-subtlety-cleverly-inventing )this lied,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( but still excuse me Sokrates,

    we didnt tell you everything he said.

    he also said she was an hysterical bitch ),

    SOKRATES: but still he( refining-subtlety-cleverly-inventing )this lied,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( and he called her a self-entitled brat ),

    SOKRATES: but still he( refining-subtlety-cleverly-inventing )this lied,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( and he called her profoundly selfish ),

    SOKRATES: but still he( refining-subtlety-cleverly-inventing )this lied,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( and he told her she had to change her work,

    to be more like his work,

    and his work ),

    SOKRATES: but still he( refining-subtlety-cleverly-inventing )this lied,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( and he said what she was doing was

    the opposite of philosophy ),

    SOKRATES: but still he( refining-subtlety-cleverly-inventing )this lied,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( and he forced her to repeat out loud

    that anything she would ever put on paper

    would make even the most expensive paper,

    the finest, most exquisite paper — worthless ),

    SOKRATES: but still he( refining-subtlety-cleverly-inventing )this lied,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( and he called her stupid

    many times ),

    SOKRATES: but still he( refining-subtlety-cleverly-inventing )this lied,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( and she remembers every one

    of their names, the men who said those things,

    and one of them was her father ),

    SOKRATES: but still he( refining-subtlety-cleverly-inventing )this lied,

    ἀλλ᾽ ὁ τοῦτο κομψευσάμενος ἐψεύσατο,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( but self-care would make her invisible )

    ( so we- ) shiver in layers too light ( -being a puffy coat ),

    ( we keep him warm and insulate her truth )

    ( but when he accidentally births her puffer fish . . . )

    ( then we were punished many times ) ( from many

    angles ) ( and each one hurts ) ( this knucklehead )

    ( always sorry ) ( lol ) ( until thirty-five or so ) ( when we realize )

    ( the punishments are pulling him away from her )

    ( and thats our line ) ( thats when our voice says ) ( no )

    ( then ) hiding fom the world ( we try to save

    what can be saved ) ( we really do ) ( before we leave

    to find ourself whom we dont know ) ( and we

    find love ) ( because we find another man

    who does believe in her ) ( and loves her too )

    ( so go looking in every way you can )

    ( as pieces by her paradise make whole ),

    SOKRATES: but the true( unconcealed )

    has been brought-forth( by nature )

    ( they had been brought-forth )( to have brought-forth )

    ( it has flown, fled, flight )( to have escaped )

    ( the charge )( they had been in exile ),

    τὸ δὲ ἀληθὲς πέφυκεν,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( and dreams, as Hamlet shows, hold on to you )

    ( so ) the lake doesnt know summer ( we ) is ( being ) gone,

    ( but she refused ) ( then ) ( to let go ) ( lake-mirror-black )

    ( with lines and leash and bricks of living gold )

    ( it yanks a chain ) ( commands ) ( build me a temple )

    ( and somehow ) ( how? ) ( we still suspect its Theuth )

    ( as if the very shadow master called him home )

    ( how did it make us feel? ) ( afraid, of course )

    ( when your own heart is hounding you ) ( by force )

    ( we didnt rush? ) ( there was no need ) ( if true,

    we couldnt slow the course of destiny )

    and on the walk back to town ( we put it thus )

    ( what we would do in heaven ) ( with joy )

    ( why shouldnt we do it now? ) ( own victory )

    ( but music was our designated work ),

    SOKRATES: whether wealthy or poor

    ( he would )produce by work( make, fabricate )

    ( he would labor and toil, strive, exert, construct )

    ( he would be weary, exhausted, fatigued )

    ( and he would suffer, perhaps be ill,

    until his work was done ) ( until hed done

    his work ) ( you too ) ( youd do your work )

    ( you would produce, make, fabricate, labor

    and toil, strive, exert, construct ) ( you would

    be weary, exhausted, fatigued ) ( and you

    would suffer, perhaps be ill ) ( but work, until

    youve done your work ),

    ἐάντε πλούσιος ἐάντε πένης κάμνῃ,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( where are the healers? you would ask )

    ( and ) we would show you ( the church or the hospital )

    ( at first, he wouldnt know ) ( but of course Asclepios )

    ( and either would take hold of you ) ( for a price )

    ( and ) it looks exactly the same ( from the outside )

    ( as it used to ) ( when we passed by here before )

    ( by the way, her diet was inspired by his brother-

    called city of pigs ) ( from book II ) ( were fascinated

    to translate that passage for ourselves . . . )

    ( as we make our own ) ( through these interiors )

    ( we-practicing care of death ),

    SOKRATES: to be forced( constraint-necessity )

    ( o prison-chained )

    to go( up to )the double-folding-she-doors

    ( you will thrust out-of-doors )( of )doctors-healers,

    ἀναγκαῖον (489ξ) εἶναι ἐπὶ ἰατρῶν θύρας ἰέναι

    ADEIMANTOS: ( and indeed ) ( if you happen to live near a mosque

    and hear the prayer, that is what ear-openers

    have sounded like for her ) ( she wouldnt be here

    without Al-Fatiha ) ( and the Basmala

    she has called the poets seed ) ( hard liquor )

    ( she-me is really Muslim ) ( this remains her path )

    ( because the word-song leads back through herself )

    ( we-being roots or branches of a tree ) ( of twin Mercies )

    ( of dyadic-Ophelia as the translation may be )

    ( and there are many Names by which we trans )

    ( she keeps Al-Lateef, from her husbands hand,

    nearby her pillow, where she sleeps at night )

    ( whats in a name ) ( this one ) ( dreams opener )

    ( to be aware by what music we hear ) ( or whose )

    ( and anyway ) ( to take our time, we might pass by )

    my favorite playground ( and play is how we learn )

    ( its where we watch the boys do monkeybars )

    ( its where we ) ( going on the swing ) ( swing high )

    ( swing low ) ( big sky ) ( sweet chariot ) ( blue way )

    ( to feel ) ( being-away ) ( from home ) ( my feelings )

    ( not in words yet ) but the trees do ( hum to me )

    ( so the tire-swing in the forest treats us best ),

    SOKRATES: and( indeed for )all the( being-bound-

    in-needing-of )to be ruled,

    ( to go )to( the double-folding-she-doors )

    of he who is able( potentially )to rule

    ( to begin, to show, to be the first ),

    καὶ πάντα τὸν ἄρχεσθαι δεόμενον ἐπὶ τὰς τοῦ ἄρχειν δυναμένου,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( it was mostly safe to explore )

    in my childhood neighborhood ( we-being alone )

    ( and following new sidewalks to the broken ones )

    ( we would walk along the older curving roads )

    ( discover paths through the adjacent woods )

    ( our summers growing thicker in the green )

    ( but ) soon enough theyll drop their fall colours

    ( and then well be crimson-burgundy again ) ( hotly! )

    ( as we wind our way along the creek ) ( we would

    go wading in the silt ) ( and once, we measured

    pollutants in the water for the science fair )

    ( discovering a biohazard ) ( won first place )

    ( another year we wrote computer code

    to simulate three algorithmic modes

    of evolution ) ( for that, the prize

    was from the cia ) ( then failed

    to rsvp for a tour of langley )

    ( we-being intelligence )

    ( woof! woof! )

    SOKRATES: ( and )not( for )the ruler( o beginners-showing-first )

    ( of )the ones-being-ruled( all those coming after us )

    to be bound-to and in need-of( the ones-coming-after )

    ( and )( to be )ruled( to begin, to show, to be the first ),

    οὐ τὸν ἄρχοντα δεῖσθαι τῶν ἀρχομένων ἄρχεσθαι,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( and if we dared to dream of )

    the house we wanted to live in ( it would be safe

    and quiet and calm and light ) ( with level floors )

    ( and high ceilings ) ( with room enough for thought )

    ( and an exceptionally cozy bed ) ( he

    cant help himself ) ( he longs for fresh white linen )

    ( and enough blankets and pillows and throws )

    ( and baskets and drawers to fold and put things in )

    ( and hooks on certain walls for hanging clothes

    or brooms or spoons or other kinds of tools )

    ( some other familiars artwork on the walls )

    ( and a woodstove for warm toes in the winter )

    ( despite the chill ) not even fully here yet

    ( assuming winter ) ( and slow-grown food

    that tastes like loving care ) ( to keep us there ),

    SOKRATES: if( there )would be any( furtherance,

    advantage )help( o help )of him( or for him ),

    ( to-by-for )the( she- )truth( unconcealed ),

    οὗ ἂν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ τι ὄφελος ᾖ.

    ADEIMANTOS: ( but thats the house we wanted )

    and the one next to it where no one does ( the chores )

    ( where no one wants to go up to the doors )

    ( but its ours too ) ( has been our house before )

    ( until Nobody does ) ( go up to the doors )

    ( and Nobody starts making us do chores )

    ( related to fake sailors ) ( and heres the truth )

    ( we cant predict what we will say or do )

    ( or what the response will be ) and the lake

    will know ( this one is deadly dangerous )

    ( but look, Socrates, at what happened to you )

    SOKRATES: but still, he wouldnt miss-the-mark

    (and you wouldnt-wont miss),

    (by likening-representing-comparing)

    the now-ruling(rulers)(beginning-first)politicians

    (political men),

    to(for-by)the sailors(we)were just-now speaking(of),

    ἀλλὰ τοὺς νῦν πολιτικοὺς ἄρχοντας ἀπεικάζων

    οἷς ἄρτι ἐλέγομεν ναύταις

    οὐχ ἁμαρτήσῃ,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( we wanted never to go that way again )

    ( even if ) we would walk you along the route?

    ( where we would rather talk about the flowers )

    ( or the gang of wild turkeys crossing our path )

    ( or the barred owl calling from the trees )

    ( until ) we sink into my mattress ( and close my eyes )

    ( measuring my sighs by the cicadas )

    ( memories being our superpower )

    ( he out )

    SOKRATES: and(indeed)the useless(unprofitable-

    unserviceable ones)(so-spoken)by(from-under)these,

    καὶ τοὺς ὑπὸ τούτων ἀχρήστους λεγομένους

    ADEIMANTOS: ( so letswalk in ) to my old school ( at least,

    one of them ) ( and there are many different schools )

    ( looking at random bulletins ) ( we calm my nerves )

    ( in a basement hallway ) ( until seminar gets out

    and then the young come flooding in ) ( and then

    somebody recognizes me ) ( its nighttime now )

    ( and cold ) ( and everyone is nicely dressed )

    ( or its the snowflakes on their eyebrows )

    ( and now we want a cigarette ) ( its toxic )

    ( cozy ) ( colonial brick-red ) ( and dangerous )

    ( but somehow we survived ) ( and yes, its true,

    we didnt want to leave ) ( and yes, its true,

    we needed to ) ( but later there will be a dance )

    ( it was indeed a party school ) ( o un-wasted

    youth ) ( but there were many different schools )

    ( so that our pirate coat has many pockets

    and bears the motif of democracy )

    ( ugly ) ( versatile ) ( pastiche ) and hope

    its a portal ( indeed as Cheehaw Station

    little man ),

    SOKRATES: and( indeed )( ones being- )spoken( of

    as )shop-talkers after heavenly-lofty( star-signs,

    climate, weather-gossip )things

    ( to-for-by )( the )as-truly( unconcealedly )steersmen,

    καὶ μετεωρολέσχας τοῖς ὡς ἀληθῶς κυβερνήταις.

    HERA: who have( and hold the )broad sky( heavens ),

    οἳ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἔχουσι.

    SAILORS: ( at the )most-straight( -upright-angles ),

    ὀρθότατα,

    SOKRATES: ( he would )

    show every corner with a story attached

    ( to his capacity )

    you know where we want to be

    ( as things come up ) ( naturally ),

    SAILORS: (he)was saying,

    ἔφη.

    SOKRATES: ( you would have ) sweet-bitter ( memories )

    and we would write our own ( shared )

    ( braided ) good ( memories around them ),

    HERA: now(you), consider(ponder-bethink-purpose-plan-

    contrive-observe-beware)(you were considering),

    lest(to-for-by)you, we(would)back-again(hereafter)craft

    (devise-contrive-wile-counsel-plan)(we would)(we will)

    (squeeze-out the juice)(curdle the milk)(you,

    squeezed and curdled)some-

    thing evil(ugly-bad),

    φράζεο νῦν μή τοί τι κακὸν μητίσομ᾽ ὀπίσσω.

    ADEIMANTOS: ( and his are the voices questioning him )

    ( he doesnt ask to be or not to be ) comfy ( he he ),

    ( he asks ) ( what is this-he? ) ( who does his best for you )

    ( in whom you trust ) ( that we might get it right )

    on the faded streets ( about specific names,

    and dates, and details ) ( or we might get it wrong )

    ( but we will write things other men dont like )

    ( we write whom they would make impossible ),

    SOKRATES: and therefore from these and( indeed )in these,

    ( its )not easy( for )the best pursuit to( have a )good

    ( well-seeming )reputation,

    by( from-under )those pursuing( its dyad )opposites;

    ἔκ τε τοίνυν τούτων καὶ ἐν τούτοις

    οὐ ῥᾴδιον εὐδοκιμεῖν τὸ βέλτιστον ἐπιτήδευμα

    ὑπὸ τῶν τἀναντία ἐπιτηδευόντων:

    ADEIMANTOS: ( but there isnt much worth rescuing )

    of this dying ( profession ), ( the gag that stole

    the logos-word by which we do ) ( she says

    they treat her like their garbage can ) ( until

    he takes her back for you ) ( slowly at first )

    ( until he cleans her up, empties her out )

    ( and keeps her warm until shes young and blew

    and beautiful again ) cuddly ( enacting she )

    ( who holds our end ) ( or what, Sokrates? ),

    SOKRATES: but by( far )many( the )greatest

    and( indeed )most-forceful( violent-strong )slander

    ( false-accusation-charges )come-to-be

    ( against )philosophy( wisdom-love ),

    (489δ) πολὺ δὲ μεγίστη καὶ ἰσχυροτάτη διαβολὴ

    γίγνεται φιλοσοφίᾳ

    ADEIMANTOS: ( in the ashes of that ) darling town,

    SOKRATES: through those claiming to pursue such things —

    διὰ τοὺς τὰ τοιαῦτα φάσκοντας ἐπιτηδεύειν

    ADEIMANTOS: as statecraft.

    ( but what they do, o Sokrates

    he beauty-calls ) as endless war.

    //

    from hymn to Apollo

    Republic VI

    darling town

    fall colours

    ∞

    VIII.vii. the music ( the ledger ) of the Politeia

    ADEIMANTOS: he he ( he tunes his mandolin ),

    ha ha ( we joke about a notebook ) ho ho,

    ( plays chord ) ( a secret one ) ( to hear )

    and its the valley of our life ( below,

    as philosopher piracy goes down, and O,

    dear Βοb, thanks-be for ceding-we Key West.

    his fat ones flow the sweet and saltiest

    to hear we play both sides against the middle.

    we count the verses giants you done best.

    but fast, we lose no rest, and we lean left.

    his left, her right to be alive, lets dream

    horizons long-bow shooting-back the blind-

    mans kiss — drew-her, joker, mr — bulls-eye ),

    SOKRATES: but around(about) —

    ADEIMANTOS: ( and yet, how could we Suzanne V forget?

    in pieces raining down, her small blew thing,

    who turns Calypso as she lets him go,

    from thick and wild and hidden home, hallowed,

    we blow her back, no shade, the sweet shes owed.

    his chambermaid, but she grows herself a bed,

    where her gypsy lays a bump upon his head ),

    SOKRATES: ( . . . )

    ADEIMANTOS: ( slows it down, tuning Canadienne )

    ( o blue alert, o dance me to the end,

    whose secret chord does mend the pleasing lord.

    for every leash, a halleluja. she

    whose tower of song-sung-temple waits for me,

    who by dark river wept, his craft hunts we

    who lost us first — yes, Leonard, lets. )

    SOKRATES: ( waits patiently )

    ADEIMANTOS: ( for now, for just one more.

    to the goat who wouldnt want to hear his name.

    endorsed him, and she wont say it again.

    salam, Kendrick, from our family to yours.

    and to the people of his power, USA:

    Black music be, your news, Black life remain. )

    SOKRATES: ( waits )

    ADEIMANTOS: ( go shoot your mouth off, Cardi B, of course.

    and if we die, would you please drive our hearse? )

    SOKRATES: ( claps )

    ADEIMANTOS: ( in this she trusts ),

    by which the fool in us lets go,

    he hears

    ( who listens on his pirate radio ).

    SOKRATES: ( waits )

    ADEIMANTOS: ( hangs mandolin

    carefully on its golden hook )

    but did he ever try to voice the whale?

    SOKRATES: but around( about )the truthful( trusty,

    genuine, unconcealing )helmsman,

    τοῦ δὲ ἀληθινοῦ κυβερνήτου πέρι

    ADEIMANTOS: and his secrets ( we supposedly keep )

    ( but maybe also spill ) ( but might get whimsically

    wrong ) being but a mannish boy

    who navigates the Muddy Waters of

    her as-yet unheard song,

    on her as-yet un-practiced instrument,

    ( who never played mandolin before ),

    SOKRATES: but not hearing( not giving-ear to,

    not perceiving, not feeling, not understanding ),

    μηδ᾽ ἐπαΐοντες,

    ADEIMANTOS: her music,

    we wouldnt be hearing her at all.

    ( the music of the Politeia —

    were slingin it, Eva, hot to go )

    ( but the best friend of her mans best friend

    says thanks for all the great cake, Joe ),

    but he hears ( a ledger being appended )

    and something sounds a heavy

    and ponderous tome ( inhales )

    ( sea breeze ),

    SOKRATES: that necessity( force-restraint ),

    ( to-for-by )himself,

    be made the care( concern, attention )( commission or charge )

    ( zealous pursuit )( of cares )( bestowed ),

    of the in-itself,

    ὅτι ἀνάγκη αὐτῷ τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν ποιεῖσθαι ἐνιαυτοῦ

    ADEIMANTOS: necessity of the “eni-auto”,

    the in-itself ( maybe his image of

    the good, the sun ),

    ( he-being teachers pet ),

    and therefore ( he he ) boy of the —

    SOKRATES: year(anniversary, lapse

    of a year, expiry of a year, any long period

    of time, cycle, period,

    ADEIMANTOS: of however long it takes,

    he ( we-being ) ( man-child of the year ) listens

    for the ties that bind him round( about )her all,

    her instrument, her lines and how we pull,

    how work of shoulders hoist the mainsail, tall,

    and how to catch the wind, her nicer angles,

    SOKRATES: and( indeed the )seasons,

    and( indeed the )sky and( indeed the )stars,

    and( indeed the )winds and( indeed )all the( things

    that )belong to the art( skill-craft ),

    καὶ ὡρῶν καὶ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἄστρων καὶ πνευμάτων

    καὶ πάντων τῶν τῇ τέχνῃ προσηκόντων,

    ADEIMANTOS: and every time a fact falls

    in my lap ( o book of song ),

    in our ships log ( o mighty ledger )

    he takes it down ( our songset ),

    ( we-being her quality

    self-entertainment ),

    SOKRATES: if( it )s destined( it was destined )( your

    its destiny )( to-by-for )( we-being )( if its to be ),

    fit-for-rule( command, office, dominant, sovereign,

    principal, primary, original, first ruler

    )of the( temple-dwelling )ship,

    εἰ μέλλει τῷ ὄντι νεὼς ἀρχικὸς ἔσεσθαι,

    ADEIMANTOS: but he wished it on the dog star,

    ( and now we feel like starting one ),

    ( she-being true treasure ) arrgh,

    SOKRATES: but in order, ( o )steering-dyad,

    that( he )( will )( would steer ),

    ( you will pilot )( the steering-dyad )

    ( to-by-for the steering ),

    ὅπως δὲ κυβερνήσει (488ε)

    ADEIMANTOS: if he takes the helm,

    and lets the ships log ( the pink one ) ( his

    true colors ) show,

    SOKRATES: whether( some )they( body )would want( it ),

    ἐάντε τινες βούλωνται

    ADEIMANTOS: ( of course ) they do

    to-for-by the ship ( who among us

    could refuse ) ( even you ),

    SOKRATES: or not,

    ἐάντε μή,

    ADEIMANTOS: but he-me doesnt get to choose,

    ( watch him play the victim now ) ( lol ),

    ( but he could hear the hounds of love

    baying, and all the way from there,

    he could hear the lowing of a bull,

    was living through the kick inside ),

    only it wouldnt be cold facts,

    ( for he is not a weatherman

    but his bride lies with the land ),

    SOKRATES: ( them )supposing neither( the )art

    ( craft-skill )of this, nor( the )care( practice-

    exercise )( dyad-were-caring )to be possible

    to take( grasp-seize-understand ),

    μήτε τέχνην τούτου

    μήτε μελέτην οἰόμενοι δυνατὸν εἶναι λαβεῖν ἅμα

    ADEIMANTOS: he follows her feeling

    and writes it down the best he can?

    not big things, at least ( not always ),

    ( but little things weve gathered )

    ( having seen or overheard ) like,

    the captured rabbit eyes a briarpatch.

    the rooster crows before the dawn.

    ( o brave new world, we-being braver hears

    yet easier through her vernaculars.

    ah, bunny-like, we grow vernaculears.

    as anyone who lives with roosters knows

    how ear-piercing their constant crows — here,

    arrgh. but still, easier to endure by far

    than a constant scroll of other-mens news,

    of other-mens war,

    of other-mens yelling at her

    the who and how and what shes for )

    for the rooster crows before he understands

    ( we-being her own martial art,

    and hers must be Achilles-like,

    as without hers, all his must die )

    that without hers, all his must die.

    ( so she sits in contemplation of his dyad-

    sacrifice, the cock. it may be this

    he meant it for. herself, still flanked

    by Ajaxes, tough chickens, silencers

    for Asklepios, the Red, the Black,

    the Wall of the Achaians

    of her mind ),

    but in his mind, her gatherings feel

    too huge ( leading to dizziness, sea-

    sicknesss, falling overboard,

    falling asleep, etc ),

    SOKRATES: and( indeed )at the same time the steering-craft,

    καὶ τὴν κυβερνητικήν.

    ADEIMANTOS: but this be

    ( that make you smile? )

    ( that make me smile )

    what he listens for,

    SOKRATES: ( as given )becomings( being-born )

    of these sorts( there was need )( it stands in-need-of )

    ( stand-in-need, you! )( bind, you! )

    ( it was binding )( to-by-for dyad-Zeus ),

    around(about)the ship,

    τοιούτων δὴ περὶ τὰς ναῦς γιγνομένων

    ADEIMANTOS: good sailing. got it.

    ( and things ) like how he knows

    so much about me, what a trip. mind me,

    that plums sometimes will ripen more, left

    to sit on a sunny windowsill. and it may

    be personal preference, but if too tart,

    try baking me in a pastry shell.

    ( we dont need to write down ),

    ( we-being generosity itself,

    possibly ),

    SOKRATES: as the truly( unconcealedly )steer-crafter,

    τὸν ὡς ἀληθῶς κυβερνητικὸν

    ADEIMANTOS: ( to remember ) dragon meat —

    tough to digest,

    ( laugh, yall )

    and indeed,

    SOKRATES: ( you )would not lead( carry-bring-

    fetch )( to-by-for )( we )being( being ),

    οὐχ ἡγῇ ἂν τῷ ὄντι

    ADEIMANTOS: and indeed, by any ship,

    he never writes ( a book of everything

    we know about you ) ( you-being very

    very big ) lol ( you-being stranger from afar ),

    ( yet we can write things about him,

    like how in love with her he is,

    that hes such a tree-hugger,

    and a truffle-hunter too,

    o battle-cry of butterflies,

    o Oceanic tresses,

    o starry sky,

    her skin ),

    SOKRATES: and( indeed )( while being beauty- )called by them

    ( a )star-gazer,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( theres nothing bad about that ),

    but whats a meteoroskopy, and do ( we )i( being )

    really want to go through with it?

    SOKRATES: and(an)idle-talker(prater-babbler-on),

    ADEIMANTOS: me me me meee,

    ( when he should be listening to we ),

    SOKRATES: and( indeed )useless( unprofitable, unserviceable ),

    μετεωροσκόπον (489α) τε καὶ ἀδολέσχην καὶ ἄχρηστόν σφισι καλεῖσθαι

    ADEIMANTOS: ( putting on his shadow-puppet show ),

    for all to see,

    SOKRATES: by( from-under )the sailors in ships thus thoroughly-equipped

    ( constructed, framed, maintained, proved, fabricated,

    trumped-up, with actual trumpets,

    ADEIMANTOS: not imitation ones,

    ( she-being enjoys jazz ) ( and now you know )

    and does he really want to learn trombone . . .

    SOKRATES: prepared-for-purpose )

    ( having got his asses ready),

    ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν ταῖς οὕτω κατεσκευασμέναις ναυσὶ πλωτήρων;

    ADEIMANTOS: his ass to represent

    ( dodges tomatoes )

    //

    from Republic VI

    ∞

    VIII.vi. spilling secrets ( how we wrestle )

    ADEIMANTOS: because ( we love ) my daddy,

    of course hes still together.

    whole o whole,

    he would be whole,

    ( we would be whole ) ( Hole ),

    but he would be much better that way,

    once she handled his translation,

    SOKRATES: but(the)(standing-in-need-of)(binding-

    fettering-tying)selves,

    (to-by-for)the shipowner always himself,

    (would be)pouring-crowding-around(himself)

    (the standing-in-need-of)(binding-fettering-tying-himselves),

    αὐτοὺς δὲ ( αὐτῷ ἀεὶ τῷ (488ξ) ναυκλήρῳ ) περικεχύσθαι δεομένους

    ADEIMANTOS: and indeed, honey ( frowning

    at an obsolete many ) judging by these,

    ( this we should keep to myself ) he draws

    that kind of man ( not to mention all

    the textbook ) ( textbooks )

    ( eyes blur ),

    SOKRATES: and(indeed)all(are)making-and-doing

    (poetries)so that the rudder would turn-over

    (if you entrusted)(you will be left-to)(given-

    up, yield)to-for-by-them,

    καὶ πάντα ποιοῦντας ὅπως ἂν σφίσι τὸ πηδάλιον ἐπιτρέψῃ,

    ADEIMANTOS: but she, at least, was already entrusted

    ( we think once ) to them, to be para-diced

    on the big-bad wave-slicin sea-wolf,

    ( not good pirates ),

    SOKRATES: but sometimes if( they )dont persuade

    ( to-by-for persuasion ),

    ἐνίοτε δ᾽ ἂν μὴ πείθωσιν

    ADEIMANTOS: at least dyad-( twice ),

    then they stop being so dyad-nice,

    ( we-being more generous

    we let you guess how many tries ),

    SOKRATES: but still others(o others do)more,

    (implicit flock of sheep)(implicit tress of hair),

    ἀλλὰ ἄλλοι μᾶλλον,

    ADEIMANTOS: and ( many times ) she paid that price

    ( unspeakable ) as a result of which

    then-and-there ( we-being sides with

    herself, refusing his delivery ),

    SOKRATES: even killing the others or throwing(them)out of the ship, 

    τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους ἢ ἀποκτεινύντας ἢ ἐκβάλλοντας ἐκ τῆς νεώς,

    ADEIMANTOS: but to save his Politeia formidable,

    ( the quiet hopes and ugly thoughts ),

    its famously not a funny trip,

    SOKRATES: but(they), binding-hand-and-foot

    the well-becoming(well-begetting)shipowner,

    (to-by-for)mandrake or strong-drink

    (you sit among)(you would let-go)

    or by some other(thing), (they)rule

    the(temple-dwellings)(using)(experiencing)(oracle-

    proclaimings)of(the)ship(to-by-for)being-in —

    τὸν δὲ γενναῖον ναύκληρον μανδραγόρᾳ

    ἢ μέθῃ ἤ τινι ἄλλῳ συμποδίσαντας

    τῆς νεὼς ἄρχειν χρωμένους τοῖς ἐνοῦσι,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( laughs ) did nobody realize

    he was just bridling Heraclite? tois enousi,

    to-by-for being-in( ships ), horses transparently,

    ( the rosy dreams and constant fears ) to-by-

    for being-in ( the cleverest ) nous ( noose )

    ( ha ha ) whars me rum ( just kidding

    about the noose ) ( says a rabbit

    or a hare ),

    SOKRATES: and(indeed)those, drinking and(indeed)feasting-

    and-being-entertained(more),

    ADEIMANTOS: true ( we-being ) pirates dont eat rabbits

    or hares ( but we-being our own entertainment ),

    SOKRATES: (they)sail the sea

    as the(image)likeness(of)such as these,

    καὶ πίνοντάς τε καὶ εὐωχουμένους πλεῖν ὡς τὸ εἰκὸς τοὺς τοιούτους,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( we may be bunny pirates )

    but those not-good pirates

    ( we keep spilling them )

    that poetry-not( to-by-for )( we slip

    the noose )-( the noose slips we ),

    SOKRATES: but(those), praising-commending(nous)

    toward(against)these,

    πρὸς δὲ τούτοις ἐπαινοῦντας (488δ)

    ADEIMANTOS: but clown-fish ( the secrets

    that scare me ) in pretty glass bowls

    just make me laugh, or fighting fish-( the maskmaker

    likes those . . . but we can go swimming,

    we can even breathe underwater,

    true story. on Adventuress,

    the first thing they-we did,

    as women at the helm, yes really,

    was share what superpower

    each we-her would choose

    and why ) ( well, this

    being why ),

    SOKRATES: and(indeed)even(beauty-)calling(things)ship-things

    and(indeed kubernetikos)steering-skill

    and(indeed)knowing(standing-upon)(claiming knowledge

    of)things according(through the)sea, 

    ναυτικὸν μὲν καλοῦντας καὶ κυβερνητικὸν

    καὶ ἐπιστάμενον τὰ κατὰ ναῦν,

    ADEIMANTOS: well thats plain bonkers. isnt he?

    how could a mortal man stand on the water?

    but can he even ride a horse ( it takes that barely

    to hear the sea ) let alone keep a chariot seat?

    ( and she doesnt spill me ) ( not yet at least )

    ( and youre still there ) ( so maybe we

    such as ship-things could be . . . )

    and this may be what jihad means

    for he,

    SOKRATES: (would)he(who be)terrible(fearful-danger-suffering-horror-

    awe-illegal-terror-arbitrary-wondrous-marvellously-

    strong-powerful-strange-clever-skillful-one),

    would(he)gather-together(seize,

    take with him, carry-off)?

    ὃς ἂν συλλαμβάνειν δεινὸς ᾖ

    ADEIMANTOS: as long as he has-and-holds,

    as ( listening ) ( to we-being ) ( were ) his law,

    ( we keep our inner-making-out

    of hors-oars-ears-orses,

    secrets to the sea

    like mermaid queens

    with feisty tridents

    like Durgas weapon

    and with her tongue sticking out,

    as the girls in Penestanan always carry her

    for Ogoh-Ogoh ) ( its a festival

    amazing to behold ),

    SOKRATES: so that(they would)be first and rule

    (they will rule)(by-will-being-ruling)or persuading

    or constraining the shipowner,

    ᾖ ὅπως ἄρξουσιν ἢ πείθοντες ἢ βιαζόμενοι τὸν ναύκληρον,

    ADEIMANTOS: that sounds like a dangerous

    man-being-( puts on reading glasses )-job.

    but ( we-being ) ( not scared ) of him ( hes just

    a plushie ) ( nur other daddy-men ) ( nar whale

    she sophist be ) ( sea-walking daughter

    of a dancer ) ( she-pirate ) indeed,

    SOKRATES: but(those who are)not such as this,

    (they are)blaming as useless(unprofitable,

    unserviceable),

    τὸν δὲ μὴ τοιοῦτον ψέγοντας ὡς ἄχρηστον,

    ADEIMANTOS: and indeed ( we )i( being ) wonder.

    whether those curs would blame the solid stance

    of irony, to walk her proffered plank

    ( even for a little wrestle ) ( tee hee )

    seeing-( a naked woman )-we.

    naked is how we wrestle

    on the Politeia.

    //

    from Republic VI

    ∞

    the Delphiad VIII.i ( katabasis of ) plums & ii. afternoon nap ( nap master )

    i. ( katabasis of ) plums

    ADEIMANTOS: this wind is never late. whether today,

    whether yesterday, whether tomorrow. but when she blew,

    SOKRATES: down(we)went(and came)(they came)(and went)(against-

    over-through)(downwind, leeward)(in accordance with, in relation

    to)(descended)(dismounted)(downstairs)(from horseback)(from

    a chariot)(from inland to the sea)(into the scene

    of contest)(from the tribune)(down to Hades)(we-they die,

    set, cease)(so they and we)(attained

    our end)yesterday,

    (327α) κατέβην χθὲς

    ADEIMANTOS: not this time to Hades; but where-to?

    SOKRATES: to(the)Peiraius(which, for strangers,

    on the open spaces,

    was the famous harbor of Athens),

    εἰς Πειραιᾶ

    ADEIMANTOS: and you didnt go alone; how and who was guiding you?

    SOKRATES: with(among-between)Glaukon(gleaming-gray-blue-

    eyes-pine-cone)of Ariston(the best)(breakfast-brunch),

    (we-he)(intending to be)offering(-through)prayers(and vows),

    μετὰ Γλαύκωνος τοῦ Ἀρίστωνος προσευξόμενός

    ADEIMANTOS: and not because they forced you to; but why?

    SOKRATES: and(to-by-for)the god(he would behold with wonder),

    τε τῇ θεῷ

    ADEIMANTOS: something youd never seen before; but what?

    SOKRATES: and(indeed)at the same time, wishing to behold(

    observe, watch, gaze at)who-which-what turn(direction, way,

    manner, fashion, guise, habit, custom, character,

    temper, mode, manner, style)(they would)(will)make-

    and-do(by making-doing-poetry)the festival

    (feast-holiday),

    καὶ ἅμα τὴν ἑορτὴν βουλόμενος θεάσασθαι τίνα τρόπον ποιήσουσιν

    ADEIMANTOS: the festival; shes who?

    SOKRATES: (she)who(just as, as if, so as, inasmuch as, seeing that

    )now(presently)(her hims would be)leading(carrying-off, fetching,

    bringing, guiding, drawing-out, holding, celebrating, keeping,

    observing, sustaining, maintaining, holding-account,

    treating, drawing-down and ripening

    his)first,

    ἅτε νῦν πρῶτον ἄγοντες.

    ADEIMANTOS: his first pupil, his first

    mate, first-second-self, just so

    ( the plums are getting colour )

    but did he do it for the fruit,

    MEDEIS: and(even indeed, o month, o moon)we saw

    (they saw)Sisuphos(o pain-dyad)(o pains, of body, of mind,

    of grief, of heartache, everything that causes pain)suffering

    pain(he was suffering, smarting with pain, being ill, suffering

    hardship, grieving, mental anguish)(in pain)having-

    and-holding(bearing, carrying, bringing-

    along)pain(Sisuphos),

    καὶ μὴν Σίσυφον εἰσεῖδον κρατέρ᾽ ἄλγε᾽ ἔχοντα

    ADEIMANTOS: or did he do it (to-by-for) itself,

    MEDEIS: (o mighty-monstrous-prodigious-humongous thing)

    (monstrous)(to behold)(look-upon)(to seize-hold)the stone,

    lifting-up(exalting, ennobling)(the bearing, carrying)(of holding

    in his hands)(considering, weighing, deliberating-on

    the bearing, enduring)(the produce, yield, of earths

    )(of carrying-off)(taking-away)the mighty(painful)monster

    (of pain)prodigious(ly painful)humongous(pains

    )(o dyad-pain),

    λᾶαν βαστάζοντα πελώριον

    ADEIMANTOS: or did he do it (to-by-for) we-being,

    MEDEIS: (to-by-for)(partaking of)both(together, towards

    both sides, both ways, from and on both sides)(one with

    another),

    ἀμφοτέρῃσιν.

    ADEIMANTOS: (to-by-for) some kind of harmony,

    MEDEIS: we were(or)(eh?)(in truth)(he was saying)(to-

    by-for)you(look,

    you), (even-indeed)supporting

    (by pressing, leaning, applying

    his weight)(to-by-for)both hands(arms)(acts)(deeds)(blows)(violent

    measures)(handiwork)and(to-by-for)feet(the lower corners of

    the sail, the ropes fastened therelo, the sheets)(haul it tight

    or let it go)(the rudder or steering-paddle)(feet

    in prosody, phrases and passages, breath-

    by-breath),

    595 ἦ τοι ὁ μὲν σκηριπτόμενος χερσίν τε ποσίν τε

    ADEIMANTOS: so even when it seems crazy,

    MEDEIS: (foolish-dyad)(silly, witless)(to behold)(look-upon)

    (to seize-hold)the stone(we would accomplish, finish)

    (moving upwards)(from Hades)(back)(up from the Piraeus)(silly,

    witless)(dyad-foolish, he)was pushing(thrusting, throwing, rushing)

    toward the crest of the hill(ridge)(back of the horses neck,

    its withers, under-yoke)(spine of a helmet)(crest of a cockatiel)

    (cockscomb)(silly, witless)(dyad-foolish),

    λᾶαν ἄνω ὤθεσκε ποτὶ λόφον:

    ADEIMANTOS: until we laugh

    ( when ) ( fall is falling on me )

    until we cry, until we die,

    until we dance,

    SOKRATES: but still(otherwise, o others, o she-others,

    o he-other, o she-dyad)(other she-dyad, other shes

    and its)(the other its, the other she-dyad)(to-by-for

    the other-she),

    ἀλλ᾽,

    ADEIMANTOS: but blues dont leave other blues behind,

    SOKRATES: but if(they-others are)(the other is)

    (we are)(see there!)(we say)(we)i(being),

    ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ,

    ADEIMANTOS: for blues we need a public school,

    SOKRATES: (to-by-for)such(things)as these(flowing-forsaken-

    flowings)being(accomplished fulfilled)completed —

    (to-by-for)education(o educations, child-rearings, trainings,

    teachings, learnings, cultures of trees, twisted handiworks

    of Egypt, ropes of papyrus, etc, all thats taught and learned,

    arts, sciences)(rearing of a child), and(indeed, to-by-for)growth

    (age, generation)(o generations)(you will be young, the prime

    of life), there-and-then — (and)not alone(solitary, the only,

    forsaken, unique)(you wouldnt make solitary)

    (you dont make solitary),

    would(you)(yes, you)turn-over(transfer, bequeath, commit,

    entrust-to, rely-upon, leave)the(she)city(to these,

    beings-completed by education

    and by growth,

    not complete as left-

    alone)?

    ( τελειωθεῖσι τοῖς τοιούτοις παιδείᾳ τε καὶ ἡλικίᾳ ἆρα οὐ μόνοις )

    ἂν τὴν πόλιν ἐπιτρέποις;

    ADEIMANTOS: we would if you would, you beautiful maniac,

    writing curses such as these, whose secret Pythagorean number-

    being Kirkes merkin, o hello children,

    MEDEIS: but still when(ever)(it)(would be about to)(likely to)

    (destined)(to throw-over)(run beyond)(outstrip or pass)(overpower)

    (go beyond, exceed)(delay longer)(exceed the time)

    (overbid)(outbid)(go on further-and-further)(bidding more-

    and-more)(pass-over)(cross-over mountains, rivers, surmounting

    )(double the headland)(runnover, overflow, of rivers,

    of a star, getting hot, and hotter)

    (o mountain-top)(the peak)

    (topmost)(the farthest-

    ADEIMANTOS: — ( o how are we hyper-perfectionist-procrastinators

    hyper-perfectionist-sleepers-and-dreamers

    but we also are the laziest of beekeepers

    always let the boss-do-work himself ) —

    MEDEIA: edge)(about to)(nightfall)(will-consummate)

    (the end)(higher)(extremity)(likely to, )(the highest-pitch,

    is)destined, (the pride)(the greatest)(height,

    extreme)(the peak —

    ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε μέλλοι ἄκρον ὑπερβαλέειν,

    ADEIMANTOS: when we would reach out for the sun,

    MEDEIS: )then, it would turn back(in flight)(turn back to flight)

    (send home again)(all the way to Hades)(twisting back

    the hands)(and feet)(so as to tie them)(back-again)(back-

    wards)(to-by-for the)mighty-weight(mother of Skulla)(back-

    again)(backwards)(the Mighty-

    one)(the mighty-weight),

    τότ᾽ ἀποστρέψασκε κραταιίς:

    ADEIMANTOS: and then be seized by cursed fate,

    MEDEIS: back again, anew, hereafter, in turn, thereupon, there-

    after, then, what follows, to the ground, earthwards, down,

    to the bottom(the shameless)(ruthless)(reckless)(greedy)(lost)

    (no sense of decency)(careless)(insatiate)(stupid)

    (stone)was rolling round-and-round, revolving, rolling-whirling-

    down, wallowing down, much-talked-of, mouth-to-mouth,

    and round-and-round, the stone(you seize and hold)

    (you grip)(you behold)(back at the bottom, you

    )(look)(back up-upon —

    αὖτις ἔπειτα πέδονδε κυλίνδετο λᾶας ἀναιδής.

    ADEIMANTOS: all thats been undone ( how many times )

    ( but this time shes not defeated ) we-being never defeated

    ( we-being fiber-artists ) ( rippit ) across the sea,

    SAILORS: and(indeed, he was)(Adeimantos)(a)fearless prophet.

    καὶ ὁ Ἀδείμαντος,

    ADEIMANTOS: O Sokrates,

    ὦ Σώκρατες,

    SAILORS: (he)was saying(declaring, affirming, asserting),

    ἔφη,

    SOKRATES: to-by-for the Politeia,

    ADEIMANTOS: towards(-against-through)(even-indeed)

    these(things), (we-being)(to-by-for)you, such as nobody

    would(thats you-know-who)(he was permitting, allowing,

    letting be)(let be, you)speak against(gainsay, contradict,

    in-reply-to)(in questioning)(in dispute),

    πρὸς μὲν ταῦτά σοι οὐδεὶς ἂν οἷός τ᾽ εἴη ἀντειπεῖν.

    SOKRATES: seems such as he :P

    ADEIMANTOS: for, but still, the(men)hearing something such as this

    (will be)affected(influenced, by passion or feeling, come-to-be in

    a certain state of mind, suffer)(to-by-for suffering)each time(

    the she-dyad which, as)now,

    (you would)(man-speaking)speak(gather-

    recount),

    ἀλλὰ γὰρ τοιόνδε τι πάσχουσιν οἱ ἀκούοντες ἑκάστοτε ἃ νῦν λέγεις:

    SOKRATES: O least-worst-man-speaking-suffering men,

    ADEIMANTOS: (they)lead the way(go before, guide, command, rule, believe, hold)

    (you will set the warp in the loom, begin the web)(he was putting

    to flight, giving chase)(chase, you!)(o divine)(things divine)(to-by-for

    the divine-she)through inexperience(ignorances, want of skill)

    (through infinities)of asking(to ask)(questioning, begging)

    (to question)(they were questioning)(we were questioning)

    (o questioning)(questioning)(the questioning),

    ἡγοῦνται δι᾽ ἀπειρίαν τοῦ ἐρωτᾶν

    SOKRATES: that sounds like me, to me, at least,

    ADEIMANTOS: and(indeed)to separate(to part, determine, distinguish,

    choose, reject, decide, give answers, replies, defending)by(from-

    under)the logos(word-speech-account),

    καὶ ἀποκρίνεσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ λόγου

    SOKRATES: thats the gist,

    ADEIMANTOS: by(beside)each question-asked, (a)little(small)bit(

    being-mislead, brought from the side, brought round,

    brought forward, lead-aside from the way, diverted,

    being-influenced, brought-forward, being-introduced,

    as witness, being-produced, delivered stealthily, slipped-in),

    παρ᾽ ἕκαστον τὸ ἐρώτημα σμικρὸν παραγόμενοι,

    SOKRATES: oligen orgen, as often said,

    ADEIMANTOS: of the small(little)(ones being)gathered-

    together(collected, mustered, strung, hoarded, collected)

    at the end(completion, accomplishment, event, issue

    )of the speeches(accounts-arguments-reckonings)(they

    and we were fond of talking)(o being-fond-of)(being-

    fond-of)(speeches-accounts)(introducing)(to introduce)great

    (big, vast, high, full-grown, mighty, strong)the failure(oops,

    a trip, stumble, fault, error, false-step)(we would be thrown-off

    )(be thrown, you)(he was thrown off the horse),

    ἁθροισθέντων τῶν σμικρῶν ἐπὶ τελευτῆς τῶν λόγων μέγα τὸ σφάλμα

    SOKRATES: myself more like a stingray fish, but please continue,

    ADEIMANTOS: and(indeed)to be shown-forth(brought-to-light,

    produced, made-known, made-to-blaze, displayed,

    as)opposite(contrary, reverse)(to-by-for)the first

    (earlier, destined)(accounts),

    καὶ ἐναντίον τοῖς πρώτοις ἀναφαίνεσθαι,

    SOKRATES: oopsie, maybe the logos slipped,

    ADEIMANTOS: and(indeed)even as by(from-under)(such as)

    the(round-mystic-vessels)deinos(terrible, marvellously clever,

    wondrously strange, powerful)(ones)(they were exaggerating

    )(we were exaggerating)(to exaggerate)(the men)(will be

    in dire straits)(at)playing(some game like gamblers)checkers,

    καὶ ὥσπερ ὑπὸ τῶν πεττεύειν δεινῶν

    SOKRATES: dont they like checkers?

    ADEIMANTOS: those(men)shut(off)out(excluded-from, inter-

    cepted, barred)(and)not finishing(accomplishing, fulfilling),

    οἱ μὴ τελευτῶντες ἀποκλείονται

    SOKRATES: those poor men. surely youve heard, its really hard,

    ADEIMANTOS: and(indeed)dont have-and-hold(bear-carry-

    bring)(by having-and-holding)(by bearing-carrying-bringing

    )that(they would)(bear, carry, endure, suffer, admit, offer,

    present, produce, pay due, carry off, as a prize, and win)

    (what was his destiny, his fate),

    καὶ οὐκ ἔχουσιν ὅτι (487ξ) φέρωσιν,

    SOKRATES: o lovers of carrying prizes, the men of whom you speak,

    ADEIMANTOS: and(indeed)in this way those(men)finishing(

    accomplishing, fulfiling, bringing-to-pass)(are)shut(off

    )out(excluded-from, intercepted, barred),

    οὕτω καὶ σφεῖς τελευτῶντες ἀποκλείεσθαι

    SOKRATES: from a room of their own,

    ADEIMANTOS: and(indeed)dont have-and-hold that(they would)speak(

    recount, gather, pick-up)again(and in turn)by(from-

    under)this(some)other(she)(gamblers)checkers

    (bow wow)(that bitch),

    καὶ οὐκ ἔχειν ὅτι λέγωσιν ὑπὸ πεττείας αὖ ταύτης τινὸς ἑτέρας,

    SOKRATES: boo hoo cat poo,

    ADEIMANTOS: not in small round stones(pebbles, counters,

    gems, abacus, used for divination, voting),

    οὐκ ἐν ψήφοις

    SOKRATES: be Sylvia Plath, be Nina Simone,

    o best of men, go ( and come and ) be unknown,

    ADEIMANTOS: but still in words(speeches-arguments-accounts),

    ἀλλ᾽ ἐν λόγοις:

    SOKRATES: but when they lack the stones for silence,

    then they try me,

    ADEIMANTOS: since(o dyad-word-song)(you approach)(the dyad-

    word-song)(you are)(to-by-for word-song),

    the true(unconcealed)(truly-unconcealedly)at least

    (does)nt-at-all have-and-hold some very(flock of wool

    or lock of hair)(the true-unconcealed)(to-by-for)this(-she),

    ἐπεὶ τό γε ἀληθὲς οὐδέν τι μᾶλλον ταύτῃ ἔχειν.

    SOKRATES: o lack of imagination, its their favorite remedy.

    maybe try to hemlock this-she,

    ADEIMANTOS: but(we)speak(gather-recount)looking steadfastly

    (gazing, regarding, paying attention-to, looking-upon)

    (you regard steadfastly)the(we-)being-present,

    λέγω δ᾽ εἰς τὸ παρὸν ἀποβλέψας.

    SOKRATES: then look steadfastly at me,

    ( hi. we mean, hello. man, here! )

    ADEIMANTOS: for now, somebody would say, someone even

    (indeed)(does)nt have-and-hold(to-by-for)your(we-)word(speech-

    argument-account)to oppose(set-oneself-against, withstand),

    according(through)each questioning(asking),

    νῦν γὰρ φαίη ἄν τίς σοι λόγῳ μὲν οὐκ ἔχειν καθ᾽ ἕκαστον τὸ ἐρωτώμενον ἐναντιοῦσθαι,

    SOKRATES: we say to somebody ( o insufferable he ) we have-and-hold

    (to-by-for)nobody ( he seems to be mc ),

    ADEIMANTOS: but(to-by-for the)deed(work, act)to see,

    ἔργῳ δὲ ὁρᾶν,

    SOKRATES: the deed-work-act was done(to-by-for)little-old-me.

    and why cant they just be happy for a feast?

    ADEIMANTOS: as many(men)as(are)starting-out(setting-

    in-motion, spurring-on, cheering-on, beginning, rushing-headlong)

    at philosophy(wisdom-love), (are)not fastening(himselves to it,

    not binding himselves, cleaving himselves, to it)(not laying-hold-

    of it, seizing it, clasping it, for himself to be clasped, seized, laid-

    hold-of, catching-fire by it), (and not)on account of(for the sake

    of)(it, being)educated(brought-up, reared, trained, taught,

    nurtured, corrected, disciplined,

    as a child),

    ὅσοι ἂν ἐπὶ φιλοσοφίαν ὁρμήσαντες μὴ τοῦ πεπαιδεῦσθαι ἕνεκα ἁψάμενοι

    SOKRATES: so have we been held (to-by-for) man-childs?

    ADEIMANTOS: (we)being young(he would swim, he would spin,

    he would pile up in heaps, he)would(wish to)be set free(delivered-

    from, released, escaped, acquitted, removed, departed-from),

    νέοι ὄντες (487δ) ἀπαλλάττωνται,

    SOKRATES: my prison cell,

    ADEIMANTOS: but still(they would)spend time(in it)longer,

    ἀλλὰ μακρότερον ἐνδιατρίψωσιν,

    SOKRATES: conversation,

    ADEIMANTOS: even(indeed)and most becoming wholly otherly(

    unusual, strange, portentous, utterly different, queer),

    τοὺς μὲν πλείστους καὶ πάνυ ἀλλοκότους γιγνομένους,

    SOKRATES: elephants-in-elephants, teachings of trees,

    to-by-for the beach dog — rawrr — so cuddly,

    ADEIMANTOS: so that(we)wouldnt say thoroughly depraved,

    ἵνα μὴ παμπονήρους εἴπωμεν,

    SOKRATES: we would say well-born,

    ADEIMANTOS: but the(ones)seeming(to be)(furnishing

    with rafters)(the)most fitting(meet-suitable)likewise(

    are)suffering this, at least, by(from-under)the pursuit(

    business-custom)which you praise(approve, commend),

    τοὺς δ᾽ ἐπιεικεστάτους δοκοῦντας ὅμως τοῦτό γε

    ὑπὸ τοῦ ἐπιτηδεύματος οὗ σὺ ἐπαινεῖς πάσχοντας,

    SOKRATES: slander, coercion, abuse,

    a regular Kerberos, eh Herakles?

    ADEIMANTOS: becoming useless(unprofitable, unserviceable)(to-

    by-for)the cities,

    ἀχρήστους ταῖς πόλεσι γιγνομένους.

    SOKRATES: nevertheless becoming nobodies,

    MEDEIS: )nevertheless, he at least, back again, in return, thrusted(

    pushed)(forced-back)(stretching)(bending)(exerting)straining,

    αὐτὰρ ὅ γ᾽ ἂψ ὤσασκε τιταινόμενος,

    ADEIMANTOS: we-being ( completely ) me again,

    SOKRATES: and(indeed we)i(being)hearing(you hear)

    (of involuntarily-silent ones,

    from one involuntarily-silent),

    καὶ ἐγὼ ἀκούσας,

    ADEIMANTOS: but we-being reborn your man,

    SOKRATES: (do)you really suppose(forebode, presage, expect,

    suspect)(he was alone)(he is alone)

    (you are alone)

    (be alone,

    you),

    οἴει οὖν,

    ADEIMANTOS: maybe not, but how would we, we-being-seeing, know?

    SOKRATES: (o saying)(we say)(they say)(say, you)(saying)(the word-song),

    εἶπον,

    ADEIMANTOS: but even a chatbot could copy that,

    SOKRATES: (do you really suppose)the(men)saying these(things

    to be)false(speaking-playing false, beguiled, cheated, mistaken)?

    τοὺς ταῦτα λέγοντας ψεύδεσθαι;

    ADEIMANTOS: no, but —

    MEDEIS: but(against)through(you sweat)(youre drenched

    with sweat, the)sweat(y sweaty sweat)(exuding sweat

    from trees)(gum, resin)was gushing(flowing, running, streaming,

    full-flow)(a leaking ship)(flux)(pouring)(to go slowly)

    (to limp)(to go or come to harm)(to ruin)(perish,

    disappear, lost)(clean gone),

    κατὰ δ᾽ ἱδρὼς 600 ἔρρεεν

    ADEIMANTOS: ( sighs into the sweat )

    MEDEIS: out(of cups)of limbs(idle, useless, unhappy, miserable)

    (in vain)(limbs, body-members)(from musical-members,

    phrases, songs, strains)(from a nightingales)

    (hims)(however many hymns),

    ἐκ μελέων,

    ADEIMANTOS: its a lot of hims ( but taking baby

    steps ) what about these sailors?

    SAILORS: (we)dont know, (we)(o swelling-puffiness-tumors)

    (havent seen)(the swelling-puffiness-tumors),

    οὐκ οἶδα,

    ADEIMANTOS: but(we are)(or)(eh!)(truly)(beingly)he was saying(he was he),

    ἦ δ᾽ ὅς,

    SOKRATES: we-being not a tumor ( but maybe a Cancer ),

    ADEIMANTOS: but still the opinion(thinking, imagining,

    supposition, expectation, purpose, pretending, presaging,

    seeming, self-seeming)(to-by-for)you,

    ἀλλὰ τὸ σοὶ δοκοῦν

    SOKRATES: he looks like three girls in sparkly-pink bathing-suits,

    concealed inside a trenchcoat, the shape of a manly sailor,

    with at least three fish tails poking out, and a false mustache,

    but you wont find this golden tan on instagram,

    ADEIMANTOS: (o expecting)(we were expecting)

    (they were expecting)(the expecting),

    δοκοῦν

    SOKRATES: the sum and substance of western civ,

    ADEIMANTOS: (o furnishing)(they were furnishing with rafters)

    (we were furnishing with rafters)(to furnish with rafters)

    (rafter-furnishing),

    δοκοῦν

    SOKRATES: make-find good stranger an un-dying friend,

    ADEIMANTOS: (fancy)with pleasure,

    ἡδέως

    SOKRATES: a vegan brownie to share with you,

    ADEIMANTOS: but still(how it)(in general)seems to you,

    with pleasure(we)would hear,

    ἀλλὰ τὸ σοὶ δοκοῦν ἡδέως ἂν ἀκούοιμι.

    SOKRATES: it seems —

    MEDEIS: but(o dust)(o sand)ashes(o pearl-ash, lye, soap-powder)

    (quicklime)(plaster, stucco)(dusty)(it was plastering with stucco,

    daubing over)(painting, disguising)(plaster over, you)

    from the strength(might-power-master-victory)(the ten)

    (of the she-head)had stirred-up(urged-on, called-forth, excited),

    κονίη δ᾽ ἐκ κρατὸς ὀρώρει.

    ADEIMANTOS: ( mouth full of ashes )

    SOKRATES: you would hear, that(to-by-for)me, at least,

    they(dyad-unconcealed)appear to speak(gather, recount)the(dyad-)truth

    (he wanders, he roams, outcast, banished,

    perplexed)(dyad-unconcealed),

    ἀκούοις ἂν ὅτι ἔμοιγε φαίνονται τἀληθῆ λέγειν. (487ε)

    ADEIMANTOS: ( vomits )

    MEDEIS: but after(in the middle of)(o vomiting)(o vomited)(behind)him,

    we perceived the body-strength(force, act of violence)

    (they were constraining, forcing, pressing hard)(to force)

    (we were driving, forcing-on)of Herakles(loadstone),

    ADEIMANTOS: towards a plan ( but

    was it his own ) ( and how? )

    MEDEIS: the image(phantom, unsubstantial form, reflected-

    off the mind, idea, likeness, constellation, the idol)(of Herakles),

    τὸν δὲ μετ᾽ εἰσενόησα βίην Ἡρακληείην,

    εἴδωλον:

    ADEIMANTOS: ( maybe in ways ) not spoken out loud.

    SAILORS: how(in what way, by any means, in any way, at all)(really)therefore,

    πῶς οὖν,

    ADEIMANTOS: (how)(was he saying)(what?)(he)was saying,

    ἔφη,

    SOKRATES: not spoken out loud?

    ADEIMANTOS: (how, therefore, )does it have-and-hold-well

    (viper-dyad)(to-by-for the viper)(youre-next-to, clinging-to,

    following-closely, coming-next, being-had-and-held)

    (sticky)(he was pouring)(to recount, to gather)to say,

    εὖ ἔχει λέγειν

    SOKRATES: (yelling) not spoken out loud!!!

    ADEIMANTOS: (how does it have-and-hold-well to say)

    that the(wicked)she-cities will not stop mistreating(spoiling,

    afflicting, injuring, ruining, the)earlier(first),

    (they were mistreating)(we were mistreating)(the earlier-

    former)(you-shes were ranging-over)(ploughing-haunting)

    (as the manly-many)(were ruining)

    (the she-cities)

    ὅτι οὐ πρότερον κακῶν παύσονται αἱ πόλεις,

    SOKRATES: by him having-and-holding

    them(the she-cities)as you-yourself

    are had-and-held ( thats how ),

    ADEIMANTOS: until in herselves(to-by-for herselves)

    the(philosophers)wisdom-lovers

    (he would love wisdom)(would begin, make a beginning of,

    strike the first blow, govern, be leader of, command,

    would)rule,

    πρὶν ἂν ἐν αὐταῖς οἱ φιλόσοφοι ἄρξωσιν,

    SOKRATES: so demonstrate(by you)(by my)(by it)

    self-rule, she ruling them,

    ADEIMANTOS: (those)whom useless(unprofitable, unserviceable)

    (we were)agreeing(to-by-for)her(city)selves(we(to-be)are)?

    οὓς ἀχρήστους ὁμολογοῦμεν αὐταῖς εἶναι;

    SOKRATES: by the ship, and indeed,

    let your-himself be used by we.

    //

    afternoon nap

    ADEIMANTOS: so we-being agreed.

    MEDEIS: but himself after(among)immortals

    (he would make immortal)(they make immortal)

    (to-by-for makings-immortal)(they run)(by running,

    they shine, by shining, by gazing,

    immortal)gods,

    αὐτὸς δὲ μετ᾽ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι

    ADEIMANTOS: as in a dream, he-being-he,

    MEDEIS: (he)enjoys(delights himself)in festivals,

    abundance(feasts)(you will enjoy yourself

    and make merry)and(indeed)(o viper-dyad)has-

    and-holds(you have-and-hold-to)(he bears, carries,

    brings)(you are brought)(he was pouring)(the viper-

    dyad)(to-by-for the viper)beautiful-ankled Hebe(

    of youth)(hes young again)(and they were fastened)

    (we were bound)(engaged)(undertaken)(prosecuted

    vigorously)(handled, touched, grasped, attained,

    reached, come-up-to, overtaken, by affect)(they were)

    (we are attaining, in the prime of life, fresh, vigorous)

    (strength and vigor)(the body)(vine)(divine)(of youth),

    τέρπεται ἐν θαλίῃς καὶ ἔχει καλλίσφυρον Ἥβην,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( yawns and stretches ) the warmth

    of my sweet afternoon nap

    ( me-being-he ),

    MEDEIS: (the)(child, slave, servant)of great(mighty, big,

    strong)Zeus(divine)and(indeed)of Hera(nine)gold-sandalled,

    παῖδα Διὸς μεγάλοιο καὶ Ἥρης χρυσοπεδίλου.

    ADEIMANTOS: ( his amazing aphrodisiac ) lingers

    on my skin ( well it would ),

    SOKRATES: you(would)(questioning, asking, begging)ask,

    ἐρωτᾷς,

    ADEIMANTOS: we would just lay our head in your lap,

    SOKRATES: (but)(if)(they are, he is, we are, we say)(see,

    there!)but(we)i(being),

    ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ,

    ADEIMANTOS: then yes please, tell me more about myself,

    SOKRATES: (you would ask)a question(lacking, missing, binding-

    tying, needing-of)(that which is asked), (of a decision-

    separating)reply(answer, excretion, secretion, exhalation,

    defence, response, embassy, commission, a kind of dance

    )speaking(gathering-recounting)through

    (a)likeness(image-semblance-similitude),

    ἐρώτημα δεόμενον (ἀποκρίσεως δι᾽ εἰκόνος λεγομένης).

    ADEIMANTOS: okay then, would we entrust the city to such as these —

    MEDEIS: but around him(the)cry(he was baying)(howl, you)

    (reverberating twang)(scream)(grunting)(hissing)(screeching)

    of the dead(corpses)(spirits)(if)(they are)(he is)(we are)

    (we say)(see, there!)were as birds of prey(omens),

    605 ἀμφὶ δέ μιν κλαγγὴ νεκύων ἦν οἰωνῶν ὥς,

    ADEIMANTOS: of me-being,

    MEDEIS: wholly-fear-bewildered.

    πάντοσ᾽ ἀτυζομένων:

    ADEIMANTOS: ( its terrifying here ) we dive under blankets

    to feel that warmth ( that heat ),

    SAILORS: but you at least,

    σὺ δέ γε,

    SOKRATES: as cool as cool could be,

    SAILORS: (he)was saying(asserting),

    ἔφη,

    SOKRATES: as we-harmonic grow, (to-by-for)me, the trees,

    ADEIMANTOS: (o song-ways)(we)dont suppose(expect,

    presage, forebode)(they would swoop)(they pounce-

    upon)(you, at least)(would be swooped-upon)(to-by-for the way

    of song)(you, at least)have-been-accustomed to speak

    (recount-gather)through images(likenesses-

    semblances-similitudes),

    οἶμαι οὐκ εἴωθας δι᾽ εἰκόνων λέγειν.

    SOKRATES: having-been-accustomed, self-concealing, (by-for-to)we,

    MEDEIS: but he, seeming(seemly)like murky(dark-black)night,

    ὁ δ᾽ ἐρεμνῇ νυκτὶ ἐοικώς,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( not spoken ) plasters myself on me ( like dust ),

    MEDEIS: having-holding(his)naked(exposed)(rain)bow

    and(indeed)having-holding(bearing-carrying-bringing)

    (they were throwing and heaping)(we were throwing

    and heaping-up)(an)arrow on the strings,

    γυμνὸν τόξον ἔχων καὶ ἐπὶ νευρῆφιν ὀιστόν,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( and ashes ) to maximize

    the area where skin touches skin ( out loud ),

    MEDEIS: (was)peering-about(looking-about

    with sharp, searching glances)(wistfully)(seeming-

    like)deinos(round-mystical-vessels)(terribly-

    awful-horror-marvellously-strong-

    wondrous-and-clever),

    δεινὸν παπταίνων,

    ADEIMANTOS: ( tied to the mast ) and we

    dont want to get up ( master that nap ),

    MEDEIS: seeming always like(as fitting, seemly, meet)

    he will(would)be(like they will strike)throwing(

    casting, hurling, striking, shooting, falling, letting

    fall)(like they will fall, they will let fall),

    αἰεὶ βαλέοντι ἐοικώς.

    ADEIMANTOS: but they dont let fall ( until

    theyre ripe ) and then

    maybe they will —

    //

    from hymn to Apollo

    Republic I, VI

    Odyssey 11.613-626

    ∞

    the Delphiad, book VI

    KRISA: o were a sweet(good)show

    XENOS: but we(were)swiftly shaking(brandishing,
    wielding)the(lots)beetles(that destroy bee-hives)
    into the(shameless)dog-skin(cap)

    KRISA: lips touching so lightly

    XENOS: (he would kiss)
    (you 
would be kissed)
    (youre kissed)
    tipped-with-bronze;

    κλήρους δ᾽ ἐν κυνέῃ χαλκήρεϊ πάλλομεν ὦκα:

    KRISA: its almost not even a kiss at all

    AUTOS: thence(whence)(she went)
    (she came)(wrist-)ravenously(ones)
    (you)(o raging-sacrificing)stepped-
    through-to the ridge of sweetwood
    (trees)(dupa)(pine)(raging-sacrificing)
    (agarwood)(o raging)(o sacrificing)

    ἔνθεν καρπαλίμως προσέβης πρὸς δειράδα θύων

    KRISA: yet it carries something so vast

    XENOS: but the lot(bee-beetle)sprang out
    of(a)great-hearted Eurolochos(well-
    hidden-ambush-lying-
    in-wait)

    ἐκ δ᾽ ἔθορε κλῆρος μεγαλήτορος Εὐρυλόχοιο.

    KRISA: the rising sun the next morning

    AUTOS: but(you)approached-as-suppliant
    (approach, you)(to stroll-about, present-to,
    attain-to, become, befit, pertain-to)Krisa

    (separate-distinct-discerning-judgment-turning-
    point-trial-crisis)

    under the snowy-white Parnassos(mountain-
    woodland-heights-branching-growth-minding-
    alone-remote),

    ἵκεο δ᾽ ἐς Κρίσην ὑπὸ Παρνησὸν νιφόεντα,

    KRISA: it wont be the same

    AUTOS: having-been-turned
    (four-fold)(tetrammenon)
    toward the projecting-spur(limb-shoulder-
    grove)of Zephuros
    (the w e s t - w i n d  )   ,

    κνημὸν πρὸς Ζέφυρον τετραμμένον,

    KRISA: but it will be almost the same
    but it will witness what comes next

    XENOS: but baaaa(sheep sound)(he)stepped
    to go(to come),
 and at the same time as(that)at least,

    (we would set it, sink it into the sea, plunge it in,

    enter the body, put it on like armor, enter, make
    our way into, come over and upon)two(a dyad-

    dyading)and(indeed)twenty weeping
    (o weeping)companions;

    ‘ βῆ δ᾽ ἰέναι, ἅμα τῷ γε δύω καὶ εἴκοσ᾽ ἑταῖροι
    κλαίοντες:

    KRISA: the timeline rocked out of its course

    AUTOS: nevertheless from-above
    (a)rock(ledge)(shelf)(peak)(o petra)hangs-over,

    αὐτὰρ ὕπερθεν
    πέτρη ἐπικρέμαται,

    XENOS: but over-against-them, we(o sand,
    whom)they(we)left behind, we(would be)
    groaning-wailing-weeping

    KRISA: it wont matter

    XENOS: (squeezing-out
    the juice)

    KRISA: what comes next

    XENOS: thereafter

    κατὰ δ᾽ ἄμμε λίπον γοόωντας ὄπισθεν.

    KRISA: the world just shifted

    AUTOS: but(a
    )hollow(wood-comb)
    (o holl-
    ow)has run-
    -ged)(the)comb-(stand)
    in-under(rug-
    jagged(o
    hollow
    )

    κοίλη δ᾽ ὑποδέδρομε
    βῆσσα,
    τρηχεῖ᾽

    KRISA: for the better

    XENOS: but they(we)found
    (they-we discover, devise, invent)
    so lightly, (she would cough)into
    the wooded comb(a drinking cup)

    dyad-having-been-built-made-worked,

    KRISA: o mistress(dyad)lady

    XENOS: the houses of Kirke
(circling-
    falcon to-by-for)smooth-polished
    stones, into(the)seen-around
    space( chora )place.

    εὗρον δ᾽ ἐν βήσσῃσι τετυγμένα δώματα Κίρκης

    ξεστοῖσιν λάεσσι, περισκέπτῳ ἐνὶ χώρῳ:

    KRISA: modest

    AUTOS: there,
    (o)lord Phoibos(radiant-pure-shining)Apollo
    ordained(concluded-by-conjecture, estimated,
    fortold, predicted,

    ἔνθα ἄναξ τεκμήρατο Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων

    KRISA: a red-tawny sign;
    it will show

    AUTOS: (a)lovely(charming)temple-dwelling
    to be(being)made
    (dyad-lifted-up-and-set-upon)
    and(he)said(we speak — o-word-song —
    the muthos)story-word;

    νηὸν ποιήσασθαι ἐπήρατον εἶπέ τε μῦθον:

    APOLLO: thither-hither(surely-binding-needful)we-would
    be-minded(exercising-thought-understanding-intelligence-
    feeling-sense-sensibility)to make-ready(work)(build
    a)roundly-beautiful temple-dwelling

    to be(to-by-for)human beings(an)oracle(chresterion),

    who(for-by-to)me always
    hither-thither will lead-bring-carry(by leadings, bringings,
    carryings)perfect(full-complete)hekatombs
    (hundred-oxen-offerings-from-afar)
    (to-for-by tombs),

    and also as many(as)hold(and have)(by having
    and holding)the fat(plump)Peloponnesos,
    and as many as(hold)Europe,
    (and as many as hold North and South Americas,
    and as many as hold Asia,
    and as many as hold Africa,
    and not-to-be-forgotten Australia,
    nor the endmost-reaches of Antarctica),
    and(the plethora of)sea-surrounded islands,

    (they will)consult(inquire)(use it)(seek it)(need-lack and make-
    use of it)(experience)(suffer)(study)(treat, entreat, make-
    deals with it);

    ἐνθάδε δὴ φρονέω τεῦξαι περικαλλέα νηὸν
    ἔμμεναι ἀνθρώποις χρηστήριον, οἵτε μοι αἰεὶ
    ἐνθάδ᾽ ἀγινήσουσι τεληέσσας ἑκατόμβας,
    ἠμὲν ὅσοι Πελοπόννησον πίειραν ἔχουσιν,
    ἠδ᾽ ὅσοι Εὐρώπην τε καὶ ἀμφιρύτας κατὰ νήσους,
    χρησόμενοι:

    KRISA: she was alone

    XENOS: but around her were mountain-wolves
    and mountain-lions,
 that she(herself had)enchanted,
    when(she)gave(them)evil(bad-ugly)
    pharmakon-drug-potions;

    nor did they start-off
    in a rush to attack the men,

    ἀμφὶ δέ μιν λύκοι ἦσαν ὀρέστεροι ἠδὲ λέοντες,

    τοὺς αὐτὴ κατέθελξεν, ἐπεὶ κακὰ φάρμακ᾽ ἔδωκεν.

    οὐδ᾽ οἵ γ᾽ ὡρμήθησαν ἐπ᾽ ἀνδράσιν,

    APOLLO: (but)and(to)by(for)
    which(wholes)we(we)being(o possession-whole)
    proclaiming oracles

    KRISA: falling-upon-assailing-attack

    APOLLO: would pronounce(deliver-enact)oracles(judgment,
    law and right)(of)unerring-purpose

    KRISA: the creative

    APOLLO: absolute-infallible-will(counsel-
    deliberation-advice)
    in(a)fat(plump)temple-dwelling

    τοῖσιν δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐγὼ νημερτέα βουλὴν
    πᾶσι θεμιστεύοιμι χρέων ἐνὶ πίονι νηῷ.

    KRISA: sound

    AUTOS: so-speaking,
    Phoibos(shining-radiant-pure)Apollo
    arranged(managed, distributed, set-forth, disposed)
    the(wide - spacious)foundations

    KRISA: body

    AUTOS: (the root
    or bed of the eye)(the base of the throat)

    KRISA: geometry

    AUTOS: broad and very(dyad-secretly)tall,
    (o-all)unbroken(continuous);

    ὣς εἰπὼν διέθηκε θεμείλια Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων
    εὐρέα καὶ μάλα μακρὰ διηνεκές:

    KRISA: being held

    HOMER: but in-turn the swineherd,
    leader of men,
    spoke-through to him;

    τὸν δ᾽ αὖτε προσέειπε συβώτης, ὄρχαμος ἀνδρῶν:


    SWINEHERD: and exceedingly that-she(at least)remains
    (awaits, in an indicated posture, the coming, approach
    of — )(dyad-strength)(by strength)
    (her)thumos enduring(evil, patiently, daring
    to take-upon-itself)in your big-hall-sanctuary-shrine;

    καὶ λίην κείνη γε μένει τετληότι θυμῷ
    σοῖσιν ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν:

    KRISA: but it had gotten late

    AUTOS: nevertheless, upon them(selves)

    KRISA: she starts creating

    AUTOS: Trophonios(slaughter-nourishment-murder-voice)
    and(of)Agamede(exceedingly-nothing-lest-nobody)
    put(the)threshold(road)of stone, (who were the)children
    (of)Erginos(work-control-birth-imperative-mind),
    o beloveds(for-to-by)immortal(by gazings)gods;

    αὐτὰρ ἐπ᾽ αὐτοῖς
    ( λάινον οὐδὸν ) ἔθηκε Τροφώνιος ἠδ᾽ Ἀγαμήδης,
    υἱέες Ἐργίνου, φίλοι ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν:

    KRISA: ideas spark
    and we must have worked til dawn

    XENOS: but still

    KRISA: its easy to fix

    XENOS: there-and-then(to)by(for)you at least

    KRISA: (and sparkle)
    (and we know which)

    XENOS: (he would pee)
    (other-he would watch)

    ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα τοί γε

    οὐρῇσιν

    KRISA: excitable(joy found)

    XENOS: (to-by-for)the long tails,
    they got-up and came,
    wagging-friendly-all-around

    οὐρῇσιν μακρῇσι περισσαίνοντες ἀνέσταν.

    KRISA: alogon

    AUTOS: but around the temple-dwelling, the(ineffable-
    unspeakable-unutterable-portentous-terrible)
    races(tribes-classes-nations)(of)human beings

    KRISA: studious, in tiny moments

    AUTOS: dwelled(inhabited, settled,
    flowing and being filled to overflowing,
    to-by-for)smoothed(wrought-polished-
    hewn-shaven)stones

    KRISA: its( shared )shocking-hot-pink

    AUTOS: to be famous-in-song

    XENOS: o famous-in-song

    AUTOS: always

    ἀμφὶ δὲ νηὸν ἔνασσαν ἀθέσφατα φῦλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων
    ( ξεστοῖσιν λάεσσιν ), ἀοίδιμον ἔμμεναι αἰεί.

    from hymn to Apollo
    Od. 10.206-215; 16.34-41

    ∞

    the Delphiad, book IV

    (NAUSIKAA, HOMER, and AUTOS on the beach, early morning;
    the sky is cloudy in shades of pink and violet-grey.)

    NAUSIKAA: the nights are getting darker,
    and weve been working like a dog,
    and like a horse, and like
    a woman;

    HOMER: but he
    would conceal her
    (for)by(to)the shining-
    radiant shield.

    ὃ δέ μιν σάκεϊ κρύπτασκε φαεινῷ.

    NAUSIKAA: but somehow at times,
    the memories come through,

    AUTOS: crossing over(through)it, o Works(hundreds)from-afar,
    and Okalee(O beautiful-lady)(of kale)of many(fire-
    works)towers(fortresses),

    τὸν διαβάς, Ἑκάεργε, καὶ Ὠκαλέην πολύπυργον

    NAUSIKAA: and thinking of you,
    my heart is lighter;

    HOMER: hither which(ones)first(among)Trojans
    did blameless Teukros(to make-build-work, to overcome, to pass-
    through)(take-hold-grasp-seize)(to-kill-or-to-slay)?

    ἔνθα τίνα πρῶτον Τρώων ἕλε Τεῦκρος ἀμύμων;

    NAUSIKAA: which brings me to the dream;

    AUTOS: thence(came and went)then
    (there)into Aliartos(sea-side-sunny-salt-bread)
    you arrived at(poetry-poet)rich-in-grass;

    ἔνθεν ἄρ᾽ εἰς Ἁλίαρτον ἀφίκεο ποιήεντα.

    NAUSIKAA: still here?

    (enter APOLLO, ZEUS, and HERA. APOLLO brings a plastic-
    woven recliner and puts it on the sand. ZEUS sits and reclines,
    wearing sunglasses; as HERA stands by his side; they watch.)

    NAUSIKAA: and then some; what sing you, poet?

    HOMER: Orsilochos is rousing ambush-raising, bringing-
    forth, indeed, the firsts;

    NAUSIKAA: well then; lets be the first
    to count them in; we say they slay; thats one —
    (she calls) come on in, boys!
    lets line them up, here;

    (ORSILOCHOS the Trojan comes running onto the beach.
    As each name is called, a Trojan enters, wearing a handsome
    sarung, and no shirt, to stand in a chorus line, on the sand.
    They do not appear to be injured from the war.)

    HOMER: (adjusts reading-glasses)
    and(indeed)Ormenos sets in motion, stirring-up spears of flame,

    NAUSIKAA: thats two, obviously hot

    HOMER: and Ophelestes, helping the people, making a stand;

    NAUSIKAA: we knew an Ophelia once. thats three,

    HOMER: and Daitor, who portions a loaf and partakes in a feast;

    NAUSIKAA: watch out for him, hes four;

    HOMER: and Chromios en-colors his complexion of anointed skin;

    NAUSIKAA: wow, five!

    HOMER: and(they were dedicating)(they were running against)equal-
    to-gods Lukophontes, murderously killing by silver wolflight,

    NAUSIKAA: were shivering; hes six!

    HOMER: and(indeed)Amopaon, together-companion-if-not-best-friend

    NAUSIKAA: everybody gossips about seven,

    HOMER: with the son of Poluaemon, of many bloods, an ancient gang,

    NAUSIKAA: and bloody eight, fresh off the streets!

    HOMER: and(indeed)Melanippos, obsidian Omar on his diamond horse;

    Ὀρσίλοχον μὲν πρῶτα καὶ Ὄρμενον ἠδ᾽ Ὀφελέστην
    Δαίτορά τε Χρομίον τε καὶ ἀντίθεον Λυκοφόντην

    καὶ Πολυαιμονίδην Ἀμοπάονα καὶ Μελάνιππον,

    NAUSIKAA: yes, thats Omar; all sent down to Hades town,
    and now theyre our best friends; lets hear it
    for nine Trojans, slaying!

    (the TROJAN PIT CREW applauds for themselves;
    HERA applauds, elbowing
    Zeus, who has fallen asleep.)

    AUTOS: but(he)stepped on Telphousa(marshy-
    bog at peak-perfection of nature-
    growing-life at-a-distance);

    βῆς δ᾽ ἐπὶ Τελφούσης:

    NAUSIKAA: and clearly alive;

    HOMER: all, one-by-one, (he)caused to touch
    (to)by(for)many-nourishing earth(chthonos).

    πάντας ἐπασσυτέρους πέλασε χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ.

    NAUSIKAA: o lady Hera, arent you impressed?

    AUTOS: there(for)by(to)you(this-she)(o satiety, loathing,
    weariness)is pleased, (the)place(country-space)(the north-
    west-wind)un-harmed(un-hurt, gentle, doing-no-harm)
    to make-ready(build-work,

    a)temple-dwelling and(indeed)sacred-woody(and with-tree-
    like-markings)groves;

    τόθι τοι ἅδε χῶρος ἀπήμων
    245 τεύξασθαι νηόν τε καὶ ἄλσεα δενδρήεντα:

    NAUSIKAA: in other words, lady Hera looks impressed;

    HOMER: but seeing him, killing(destroying)(slaying)
    from(his)strong bow the Trojan battalions,
    the lord of men, (o)Agamemnon
, rejoiced;

    τὸν δὲ ἰδὼν γήθησεν ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνων

    τόξου ἄπο κρατεροῦ Τρώων ὀλέκοντα φάλαγγας:

    NAUSIKAA: but the west-north-wind trades seeing-kings;

    AUTOS: but(you)stood very(underhanded-secretly)near,

    NAUSIKAA: he was squeezing-hugging-throttling-chhh,

    AUTOS: to(her)self and(indeed)you spoke-through
    (to)her the(muthos)story-word;

    ( στῆς δὲ μάλ᾽ αὐτῆς καὶ μιν πρὸς μῦθον ἔειπες: )

    NAUSIKAA: that was the sound of choking.

    APOLLO: Telphousa, here(there)(surely-needful-binding)wed be minded
    (exercising-understanding-intelligence-feeling-sense-sensibility-thought)

    NAUSIKAA: hes good at lists

    APOLLO: to make-ready(build-work)(a)roundly-beautiful temple-dwelling
    of human beings(and household-useful)-oracle-(chresterion),

    NAUSIKAA: didnt you hear me say were choking?

    APOLLO: which(for)by(to)me always(there)here(they)will(carry-
    lead)bring perfect(full-complete)hekatombs(hundred-
    oxen-offerings-from-afar)(to-for-by-tombs),

    ‘Τελφοῦσ᾽, ἐνθάδε δὴ φρονέω περικαλλέα νηὸν
    ἀνθρώπων τεῦξαι χρηστήριον, οἵτε μοι αἰεὶ
    ἐνθάδ᾽ ἀγινήσουσι τεληέσσας ἑκατόμβας,

    NAUSIKAA: hes being-minded by hekatombs;

    APOLLO: and as many as have(hold)(by holding)the fat(plump)Peloponnesus,
    and as many as(hold)(fat-plump, romantically-remembered)Europe,

    NAUSIKAA: (are those the only places you know?)

    APOLLO: and as many as hold the Americas, earth-being-full of earths, North
    and rugged South, and as many as hold Asia, fat(plump)mask-famous;
    and Africa, surely(indeed)perhaps, its then-and-there to you someday;
    and forgetting neither Antarctica, may she(to)by(for)ice-be-held,
    nor Australia, of the-dreaming-fame)and(indeed)throughout the sea-
    surrounded(oft-forgotten)isles, where wind and sea mix many names,

    NAUSIKAA: whereas it minds-me of the cows;

    APOLLO: that so many will consult(inquire)(use it)(seek it)(need-
    lack and make-use of it)(experience)(suffer)(study)(treat,
    entreat, make deals with it);

    250 ἠμὲν ὅσοι Πελοπόννησον πίειραν ἔχουσιν
    ἠδ᾽ ὅσοι Εὐρώπην τε καὶ ἀμφιρύτας κατὰ νήσους,
    χρησόμενοι:

    NAUSIKAA: hes being-minded of the milk — wait
    a minute, how can he answer all these consultations,
    if he doesnt even know all the continents?
    hey you know what, we were thinking,
    this job seems really large; maybe
    we should ask the Pope? this seems
    like a Pope-level situation; or like
    the Dalai Lama? ah —

    (ZEUS, snortling, wakes from nap — )

    NAUSIKAA: its your first transmission, o lord —

    ZEUS: but(o)Poseidon(he will let go —
    he will let flow — he will let throw —
    or will you free yourself from —

    NAUSIKAA: it sounds pretty garbled —

    ZEUS: )his gall(bile — bitter anger — wrath)

    NAUSIKAA: but not in a good way —

    ZEUS: for(indeed)some(he — alone)wouldnt be able( —
    receive, you — the dyad-set-against —
    was meeting — or encountering —
    or accepted to share the wholes — )

    NAUSIKAA: theres a dyad-set-against sharing the wholes

    ZEUS: set against(the)will(of)all immortal goddesses —
    and gods( — against all immortal seeings —
    )to quarrel(contend — compete —
    dispute — )alone —

    Ποσειδάων δὲ μεθήσει
    ὃν χόλον:
    οὐ μὲν γὰρ τι δυνήσεται ἀντία πάντων
    ἀθανάτων ἀέκητι θεῶν ἐριδαινέμεν οἶος.

    NAUSIKAA: which god is it who chokes the god?

    (HERA shows her hands to prove innocence.
    ZEUS is snoring again.)

    APOLLO: (but)and(to)by(for)which(wholes)we(o possession-
    by-wholes)proclaiming-oracles(falling-upon-assailing-
    attack)would pronounce(delivery-act)judgments
    (declare law and right)(of)unerring-absolute purpose
    in(a)fat(plump)temple-dwelling.

    τοῖσιν δέ κ᾽ ἐγὼ ( νημερτέα βουλὴν )
    πᾶσι θεμιστεύοιμι χρέων ἐνὶ πίονι νηῷ.

    NAUSIKAA: if you say so, o lord; were glad
    its not our responsibility to deal with
    the consequences, in case things
    go wrong; unless —

    AUTOS: so-speaking, Phoibos(shining-radiant-pure)Apollo
    arranged(managed, distributed, set-forth, disposed)
    the(wide - spacious)foundations(the root-
    bed of the eye)(base of the throat)
    broad and very(dyad-secretly)tall
    (o-all)unbroken(continuous);

    ὣς εἰπὼν διέθηκε θεμείλια Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων
    255 εὐρέα καὶ μάλα μακρὰ διηνεκές:

    NAUSIKAA: so divine,
    he didnt even break a sweat;
    and yet, ah —

    (ZEUS sits bolt upright; its unclear if hes awake.)

    NAUSIKAA: o lord, hither comes-and-goes one more delivery —

    ZEUS: but he, at least,
    on a raft —
    (knocked-up —

    OMAR: what

    ZEUS: hand-to-hand, off-
    hand, temporarily — sketchily —
    )of many-joints(chains,
    imprisonment, bonds, yoke-
    straps, halters, mooring-
    cables, knots, and gates —

    ἀλλ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ ἐπὶ σχεδίης πολυδέσμου

    NAUSIKAA: we see its trying to be this mans wife;

    ZEUS: and)suffering many miseries —
    (mischiefs —
    evils —
    pains —
    woes —

    πήματα πάσχων

    NAUSIKAA: we see he struggles
    to put suffering into words;
    lets help —

    ZEUS: )would by the twentieth day approach —

    NAUSIKAA: as a beggar and a refugee —

    ZEUS: Scheria, who holds-fast her stream —

    NAUSIKAA: she-of-large-clods — so fertile! —

    ZEUS: in the land of the Phaiakians,

    NAUSIKAA: hospitable as we really are —

    ZEUS: (and)they become near-gods,

    NAUSIKAA: we-looking, each into the others eyes —

    ZEUS: (and)they would honor him —

    NAUSIKAA: with feasts, and theyll hang wreaths —

    ZEUS: around(his)heart —

    NAUSIKAA: treating him —

    ZEUS: as(a)god;

    ἤματί κ᾽ εἰκοστῷ Σχερίην ἐρίβωλον ἵκοιτο,
    35 Φαιήκων ἐς γαῖαν, οἳ ἀγχίθεοι γεγάασιν,
    οἵ κέν μιν περὶ κῆρι θεὸν ὣς τιμήσουσιν,

    NAUSIKAA: that improved it; maybe
    were not so bad at this;

    (ZEUS goes back to sleep.)

    AUTOS: but she-seeing-Telphousa seeing(his)(curdled-fig-
    juice)heart(inclination)(desire)(depth)(purpose) —

    ἣ δὲ ἰδοῦσα
    Τελφοῦσα κραδίην

    NAUSIKAA: which is complicated, his heart,
    and difficult to sort-of pick and fiddle
    your way out of, but hes almost too
    interested in hekatombs —

    AUTOS: was angered(wroth) —

    ἐχολώσατο

    NAUSIKAA: and after all, she isnt we —

    AUTOS: and spoke
    (this muthos)story-word;

    εἶπέ τε μῦθον:

    TELPHOUSA: o bright-radiant-pure(o)lord(who)works-from-afar,

    NAUSIKAA: dripping with sarcasm, we empath;

    TELPHOUSA: some(o)word-song(to)by(for)your phrenes(heart-mind-trunk-
    built-concealed-from-we)we will put(lay-down, roots-
    plant, and set-in-place).

    ‘φοῖβε ἄναξ ἑκάεργε, ( ἔπος τί τοι ἐν φρεσὶ θήσω ).

    NAUSIKAA: uh-oh, it seems the worker-from-
    afar becomes the worked, o mistress-lady wife —

    HERA: already a good(brave-noble)man has been(we have
    been)born, who(to)for(by)Argives will be(o)lord —
    (you will be over-lorded —
    he polishes-smooth —
    be polished, you! —
    he will bring back —
    he will lead-up —
    up to the high-sea! —
    by bringing-up — celebrating — raising-
    up)(as you prepare to set sail — whee! — )

    ἤδη ἀνὴρ γέγον᾽ ἐσθλὸς ὃς Ἀργείοισιν ἀνάξει

    NAUSIKAA: dont be upset, o shining one; this myth
    seems more complete, and the delivery,
    she speaks — an(o)else-lord, from(o)else-where —
    o lord, are you sure youre the lord you say you are?

    (APOLLO stunned,
    AUTOS speechless)

    TELPHOUSA: hither when(youre following the dyad-
    word-song) —

    NAUSIKAA: which(indeed)we are —

    TELPHOUSA: thither when youre minded(exercising-
    thought-understanding-intelligence-feeling-
    sense-sensibility)to make-ready(build-
    work)(a)roundly-beautiful temple-dwelling;

    ἐνθάδ᾽ ἐπεὶ φρονέεις τεῦξαι περικαλλέα νηὸν

    (TROJAN PIT CREW applauds and cheers)

    NAUSIKAA: o lord, we hear youre being kicked-
    out; is it for infidelity?

    (APOLLO mortified)

    NAUSIKAA: there, there, now, now, o lord;
    whats a little thither-hither between islands?
    are we right boys?

    (TROJAN PIT CREW laughs and cheers)

    NAUSIKAA: sweet people;

    HERA: (its)Eurustheus(broad-ranging power, breadth
    of strengh, expansive might)son of Sthenelos(would-bring
    strength)child-descendant of Perseus, (of your race-
    stock-kin)(offspring)(clan-house-family)(tribe,
    caste, breed, generation)(class-sort-kind)
    and hes got)your genes —

    Εὐρυσθεὺς Σθενέλοιο πάϊς Περσηϊάδαο σὸν γένος:

    NAUSIKAA: its confusing when the god has genes;
    well have to map it, but her voice sounds pure
    and radiant! so its decided; were inviting her

    TELPHOUSA: to be(for)by(to)human beings(an)oracle(chresterion),

    ἔμμεναι ἀνθρώποις χρηστήριον,

    NAUSIKAA: there, there, Apollo, dont be glum;
    its just because(o)Heras not your mum;

    HERA: (its)not-too-shabby
    for him to be(o)lord(to)for(by)Argives.

    οὔ οἱ ἀεικὲς ἀνασσέμεν Ἀργείοισιν.’

    NAUSIKAA: everyone loves Argives, right?
    lets hear again, how not-too-shabby?

    TELPHOUSA: which(o whos)(to)by(for)you always hither
    (thither)(they)will carry(lead-bring)perfect(full-
    complete)hecatombs(hundred-oxen-offerings-
    from-afar)(to-for-by tombs);

    οἵτε τοι αἰεὶ ἐνθάδ᾽ ἀγινήσουσι τεληέσσας ἑκατόμβας:

    NAUSIKAA: see o lord? o wholes, o always
    perfect, never incomplete! and we get
    the hekatombs too, a whole island
    of happy cows well be;

    HOMER: so(she)said, but sharp pain struck-
    (raised-typhon-smoke)through(his)deep-
    phrenes(heart-stirred-smoulderingly-deep); 

    ὣς φάτο, τὸν δ᾽ ἄχος ὀξὺ κατὰ φρένα τύψε βαθεῖαν:

    NAUSIKAA: sounds like she dodged a bullet

    OMAR: indeed

    (TELPHOUSA enters in human form;
    she and NAUSIKAA drink fruity cocktails
    then dance with the pit crew and sing)

    NAUSIKAA and TELPHOUSA:
    o whos o whos, o - two - by - four,
    bring perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect
    perfect h - e - k - a - t - o - m - b - s - !

    NAUSIKAA: cant wait to tell Demodokos about this. all sets!

    (All set)

    from hymn to Apollo
    Il. 8.272-279; 19.122-125
    Od. 1.77-79; 5.33-36

    ∞

    the Delphiad, book II

    (KOURAI and HOMER on the beach at sunrise, slack-tide.)

    KOURAI: push pause

    HOMER: (loosed)

    λῦτο

    K: and let the world rest

    H: but the contest(assembly - games - arena - struggle)disper s e  d
    (unyoked - undid - unfastened - unbound - dissolved - set f r e  e
    released - came undone - relaxed - unfol d e  d    )

    (λῦτο)δ᾽ ἀγών,

    K: while we arrange our thoughts

    H: but each people scattered to go
    (and come)upon the swift ships.

    λαοὶ δὲ θοὰς ἐπὶ νῆας ἕκαστοι
    ἐσκίδναντ᾽ ἰέναι.

    K: into neat piles

    H: those(by you)(indeed)were thinking of dinner;

    τοὶ μὲν δόρποιο μέδοντο

    K: each carefully labeled

    H: and of sweet sleep(of lichen)(he was putting
    to sleep)(sleep, you)
    to be satisfied;

    ὕπνου τε γλυκεροῦ ταρπήμεναι:

    K: lock ugly ones in a box

    H: nevertheless, Achilles(remembering)
    was weeping(weep, you)(remembering his)beloved companion, re-
    membering, and not even sleep, all-tamer, was taking hold,

    αὐτὰρ Ἀχιλλεὺς
    κλαῖε φίλου ἑτάρου μεμνημένος, οὐδέ μιν ὕπνος
    ᾕρει πανδαμάτωρ,

    K: give the key to you

    H: but he was turning(youre turning)here and there, yearning
    (missing)(regretting)(longing)for Patroklos, his manhood
    and his goodly menos(courage-passion-spirit-fury-strength) —

    ἀλλ᾽ ἐστρέφετ᾽ ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα
    Πατρόκλου ποθέων ἀνδροτῆτά τε καὶ μένος ἠΰ,

    and however many(he had)wound-off(achieved)together-with-him
    and(the pains)suffered(endured), the pains(piercing-

    through)of men(growing into manhood)the grievous wars
    and(piercing-through)the(pregnant)waves(floods)(swellings)piercing-
    through —

    ἠδ᾽ ὁπόσα τολύπευσε σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ πάθεν ἄλγεα
    ἀνδρῶν τε πτολέμους ἀλεγεινά τε κύματα πείρων:

    remembering those, he(weeping)let fall the blooming(flowing-
    full-fresh, stout-thick-lusty)(we-weeping)tear,

    at one time, on(his)(ribs)side lying down, at another again
    lying(backwards)(supine)on his back, at another,
    lying(prone)on his front;

    τῶν μιμνησκόμενος θαλερὸν κατὰ δάκρυον εἶβεν,
    (10) ἄλλοτ᾽ ἐπὶ πλευρὰς κατακείμενος, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖτε
    ὕπτιος, ἄλλοτε δὲ πρηνής:

    K: knowing

    H: but at times standing straight
    he was turning(whirling)restless(distraught)(at a loss)(wandering
    along)the beach, beside the salty sea; nor did dawn
    appearing escape his awareness,

    τοτὲ δ᾽ ὀρθὸς ἀναστὰς
    δινεύεσκ᾽ ἀλύων παρὰ θῖν᾽ ἁλός: οὐδέ μιν ἠὼς
    φαινομένη λήθεσκεν

    K: you won’t give it back

    H: from beyond the salt-
    sea and this beach.

    ὑπεὶρ ἅλα τ᾽ ἠϊόνας τε.

    (enter AUTOS)

    AUTOS: but in again(bow wow)to this, Ares and well-
    sighted Argeiphontes(giant-slayer-Hermes)(they)play
    (she-playing by he- or they-playing);

    ἐν δ᾽ αὖ τῇσιν Ἄρης καὶ ἐύσκοπος Ἀργειφόντης
    παίζουσ᾽:

    H: but(he)at least then(youre following the dyad-word-song)
    (he)would yoke the swift horses under(dyad-spider-
    webs)the chariot;

    ἀλλ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ ἐπεὶ ζεύξειεν ὑφ᾽ ἅρμασιν ὠκέας ἵππους,

    A: nevertheless(he)Phoibos(pure, bright, radiant)Apollo
    plays the kithara,

    αὐτὰρ ὁ Φοῖβος Α᾽πόλλων ἐγκιθαρίζει

    H: but to drag(him)he would tie(bind)Hektor behind the seat,

    Ἕκτορα δ᾽ ἕλκεσθαι δησάσκετο δίφρου ὄπισθεν,

    A: (as you are played)dyad-beautiful and(indeed)striding-high;

    (ἐγκιθαρίζει) καλὰ καὶ ὕψι βιβάς:

    H. but three-times dragging(you)around the sign(the burial-
    mound)of the dead son of Menoitios(Patroklos),
    and again(on the fourth)pausing to lie down,

    τρὶς δ᾽ ἐρύσας περὶ σῆμα Μενοιτιάδαο θανόντος
    αὖτις ἐνὶ κλισίῃ παυέσκετο,

    A: but radiance shines(you are shone)around him,

    αἴγλη δέ μιν ἀμφιφαείνει

    H. but leaving him in ashes(and then)lying stretched-out
    (prone)on his face;

    τὸν δέ τ᾽ ἔασκεν
    ἐν κόνι ἐκτανύσας προπρηνέα:

    A: and the twinkling(and flickering)of(his)feet;

    μαρμαρυγαί τε ποδῶν

    H: but of him, Apollo was holding-off(hold-off, you)the whole
    outrage to the flesh(body)(skin), feeling
    pity for the person,

    (indeed)though(he)had died;

    τοῖο δ᾽ Ἀπόλλων
    πᾶσαν ἀεικείην ἄπεχε χροῒ φῶτ᾽ ἐλεαίρων
    (20) καὶ τεθνηότα περ:

    A: (indeed)of(his)well-spun tunic;

    καὶ ἐυκλώστοιο χιτῶνος.

    H: but all-around by-aegis(he)covered(cover, you)by(-all-)gold,
    so that(the)dragging-about wouldnt tear-off(the)skin.

    περὶ δ᾽ αἰγίδι πάντα κάλυπτε
    χρυσείῃ, ἵνα μή μιν ἀποδρύφοι ἑλκυστάζων.

    K: (o radiant lord — )my body is refusing
    to(cross-eyes)cooperate
    (powers-out)again
    it(you)(you)must know
    (dark moon)of the storm in my heart.

    H: nevertheless Odysseus
    was observing the twinkling(flickering)of feet,

    αὐτὰρ Ὀδυσσεὺς
    μαρμαρυγὰς θηεῖτο ποδῶν,

    A: but they rejoice-at(great thumos)looking-into(the)great thumos;

    οἳ δ᾽ ἐπιτέρπονται θυμὸν μέγαν εἰσορόωντες

    H: but(he)wondered(wonder, you)(at it)
    in his thumos(flickering-
    twinkling-heart).

    θαύμαζε δὲ θυμῷ.

    A: and Leto(seize-behold)of goldy-locks and(indeed)deliberate Zeus
    (wondered at their)beloved child, playing amongst the immortal
    gods(they shine - by shining)(they run - by runing)
    (by gazing)and goddesses.

    Λητώ τε χρυσοπλόκαμος καὶ μητίετα Ζεὺς
    υἷα φίλον παίζοντα μετ᾽ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι.

    H: nevertheless he, playing the lyre, was throwing-and-striking-up
    beautifully, to sing!

    αὐτὰρ ὁ φορμίζων ἀνεβάλλετο καλὸν ἀείδειν

    A: and how, then-and-there, would(will)we sing(of)you(re being
    sung), being(s)wholly well(and-many-well)sung?

    πῶς τ᾽ ἄρ σ᾽ ὑμνήσω πάντως εὔυμνον ἐόντα;

    H: about(around)Ares lovemaking and fragrant-crowned Aphrodite,
    as they(dyad)first mingled, in(the)house(of)Hephaistos,
    secretly,

    ἀμφ᾽ Ἄρεος φιλότητος εὐστεφάνου τ᾽ Ἀφροδίτης,
    ὡς τὰ πρῶτα μίγησαν ἐν Ἡφαίστοιο δόμοισι
    λάθρῃ,

    A: or(ah!)in going-courting we(would)sing of you,
    and(indeed)in-lovemaking,

    ἠέ σ᾽ ἐνὶ μνηστῆρσιν ἀείδω καὶ φιλότητι,

    H: but(it)gave many(dyads),

    πολλὰ δ᾽ ἔδωκε,

    A: so that(mindful-of was)wooing Azantida(parched-sacred, dread-
    girdled, anti-blossom)girl-daughter,

    ὅππως μνωόμενος ἔκιες Ἀζαντίδα κούρην

    H: but(the marriage)bed shamed, indeed(the grave)bedding
    of lord Hephaistos.

    λέχος δ᾽ ᾔσχυνε καὶ εὐνὴν
    Ἡφαίστοιο ἄνακτος.

    A: were(you)going with god-like Ischos(hip-loin-leash-strength)
    at-once with well-horsed Elationides(fir-pine-tree-wood-driver-
    charioteer-beating-forcing-outward-
    smaller-deer)?

    Ἴσχυ᾽ ἅμ᾽ ἀντιθέῳ Ἐλατιονίδη εὐίππῳ;

    H: but at-once to-him(a)messenger came(and went), Helios(its-just-
    the-sun), who perceived them mingling-in-lovemaking.

    ἄφαρ δέ οἱ ἄγγελος ἦλθεν
    Ἥλιος, ὅ σφ᾽ ἐνόησε μιγαζομένους φιλότητι.

    A: or at-once(with)Thorbas(tumultuous-t-rex-against)the off-
    spring by Triops(triad-eye-giant)?

    ἢ ἅμα Θόρβαντι Τριοπέῳ γένος,

    H: but Hephaistos, soon-as(he)heard(the)thumos-grieving(muthos)story,
    there and then he stepped to go(come)to(his)forge(dyad-ugly),
    (and)by the phrenes(heart-mind-built-deep)(he was)building-in-
    the-deep(brooding)(pondering-secretly)dyad-uglies,

    Ἥφαιστος δ᾽ ὡς οὖν θυμαλγέα μῦθον ἄκουσε,
    βῆ ῥ᾽ ἴμεν ἐς χαλκεῶνα κακὰ φρεσὶ βυσσοδομεύων,

    A: or at-once(with)Ereutheos(vomit-staining-fire-rageous-red)?

    ἢ ἅμ᾽ Ἐρευθεῖ;

    H: but(he)put the great anvil on the anvil-block, (o yes)

    ἐν δ᾽ ἔθετ᾽ ἀκμοθέτῳ μέγαν ἄκμονα,

    A: or at-once(with)Leukippos(white-bright-horse)and
    (indeed)the wife(dame-tamer)of Leukippos(white-brightening-horse) . . .

    ἢ ἅμα Λευκίππῳ καὶ Λευκίπποιο δάμαρτι

    H: but he was hammering-out fastenings(fetterings-bonds-
    halters(ships-mooring-cable)(knots)spells-latches-charms
    (desmos)not-to-be-broken(not-to-be-loosed),

    so that in-the-ground(steadfast)(safe)(un-decaying)(vigor-retaining)(never-
    failing)on-the-spot they would stay(stand fast, stay at home, stay
    where one is)(remain as one)(abide).

    κόπτε δὲ δεσμοὺς
    ἀρρήκτους ἀλύτους, ὄφρ᾽ ἔμπεδον αὖθι μένοιεν.

    A: . . . on foot, but he by horses;

    … πεζός, ὃ δ᾽ ἵπποισιν:

    (universal-laughter)

    H: nevertheless since(following the dyad-word-song)he made(built-
    worked)the bait(trick-stratagem-of guile-craft-cunning-
    treachery)provoked-to-anger by Ares,

    αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δὴ τεῦξε δόλον κεχολωμένος Ἄρει,

    A: and not(one month)even
    was Triops(triad-
    eye)left behind;

    οὐ μὴν Τρίοπός γ᾽ ἐνέλειπεν.

    H: then and there(he)stepped, to go(or come)(we come)(and go)to
    (his)bedchamber, where lay(his)beloved(made-by-)himself bed;

    βῆ ῥ᾽ ἴμεν ἐς θάλαμον, ὅθι οἱ φίλα δέμνι᾽ ἔκειτο,

    A: or as the first oracle(o oracle!)by human beings, seeking-
    through the land(you)stepped, o throws-from-afar Apollo?

    ἢ ὡς τὸ πρῶτον χρηστήριον ἀνθρώποισι
    ζητεύων κατὰ γαῖαν ἔβης, ἑκατηβόλ᾽ Ἄπολλον;

    H: but then, around(the)bedposts(he)was pouring(pour, you)the bonds
    (fetters-head-bands)by an all-encompassing circle;

    ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἑρμῖσιν χέε δέσματα κύκλῳ ἁπάντῃ:

    A: to Pieria(oopsy, her Piraeus)(fertile-muses-trial)indeed the first
    from Olympos(on whom)you went-down;

    Πιερίην μὲν πρῶτον ἀπ᾽ Οὐλύμποιο κατῆλθες:

    H: but many(of them)and(indeed)down from roof-beams(houses)(lairs)
    (cages)they were poured out, like(fine-thin-delicate-subtle)spider-
    webs(small intestines, a very small coin, a jar, minutes-
    seconds, moonlit-outages),

    πολλὰ δὲ καὶ καθύπερθε μελαθρόφιν ἐξεκέχυντο,
    ἠύτ᾽ ἀράχνια λεπτά,

    A: and sandy Lektos(bed-ology)you passed by
    and the(being-thrown-innies)Enienes
    and(indeed)through the(sprinkling-crooked-
    around-the-edges)Perraibos;

    Λέκτον τ᾽ ἠμαθοέντα παρέστιχες ἠδ᾽ Ἐνιῆνας
    καὶ διὰ Περραιβούς:

    H: and none would ever see them, not even one of the blessed gods,
    for(he)had built(it)around(wily - crafty - artful)subtleties(doloeis).

    τά γ᾽ οὔ κέ τις οὐδὲ ἴδοιτο,
    οὐδὲ θεῶν μακάρων: πέρι γὰρ δολόεντα τέτυκτο.

    A: but swiftly(perhaps)into Iaolkos(o purple-poison-arrow-dragging-battle-
    cry-cure)you were arriving, and you went upon Kenaios(that-there-
    here-this-that-would-empty-center)of Euboia(lovely-
    cows-eyes-say-moo), ship-famous —
    O Nausikleia!

    τάχα δ᾽ εἰς Ἰαωλκὸν ἵκανες,
    Κηναίου τ᾽ ἐπέβης ναυσικλειτῆς Εὐβοίης.

    from hymn to Apollo 200-219
    Il. 24.1-24
    Od. 8.264-281

    ∞

    the Delphiad, book I

    AUTOS: O(we would be)lord, indeed you have(and hold)lovely Lukia
    and Meionia and Miletus, delightful(himeroeis)city on the sea,

    KOURAI: indeed-undead, you winesack with dogs eyes and a deers heart.

    A: but himself again(bow wow)of Delos sea-washed-round
    greatly(you)lord(himself).

    ὦ ἄνα, καὶ Λυκίην καὶ Μῃονίην ἐρατεινὴν
    καὶ Μίλητον ἔχεις, ἔναλον πόλιν ἱμερόεσσαν,
    αὐτὸς δ᾽ αὖ Δήλοιο περικλύστοιο μέγ᾽ ἀνάσσεις.

    K: in the rear-ends of dusty libraries.

    A: but(he)goes(and comes)playing the lyre, the glorious child of Leto(behold-
    seize), by the hollow(smooth)(subtle)(elegant)lyre to rocky Pytho,

    K: good riddance, see if that bitch will take you.

    A: having(holding)divine(dyad)garments(they-we heap up earth
    to bury)(having been)filled with sweet smells;

    K: just doing to his stinky rags as hes done to us.

    A: but his lyre of gold, under the plectrum(spear-point-sting)(cocks-
    spur)(ankle), the sharp ring(gnashing of teeth)(mule-
    wagon-rattling), has(and holds)lovely.

    K: lovely under dirt.

    εἶσι δὲ φορμίζων Λητοῦς ἐρικυδέος υἱὸς
    φόρμιγγι γλαφυρῇ πρὸς Πυθὼ πετρήεσσαν,
    ἄμβροτα εἵματ᾽ ἔχων τεθυωμένα: τοῖο δὲ φόρμιγξ
    (185) χρυσέου ὑπὸ πλήκτρου καναχὴν ἔχει ἱμερόεσσαν.

    A: but(whence)thence(comes and goes)to Olympos from earth, as thought,

    K: a lord of non-entities —

    A: (he)goes(and comes, of Zeus)toward the house of Zeus and(goes and)comes
    (among)(after)the meeting of other gods and goddesses(of other seeings).

    K: eats his own people, in the words of Achilles.
    enjoy unfamy-infamy, you.

    ἔνθεν δὲ πρὸς Ὄλυμπον ἀπὸ χθονός, ὥστε νόημα,
    εἶσι Διὸς πρὸς δῶμα θεῶν μεθ᾽ ὁμήγυριν ἄλλων.

    A: but immediately by immortals

    K: uh-oh

    A: (the dyad-strain-phrase)(by strain-phrase)

    K: we think

    A: (she cares)(you are cared for)the kithara and the song
    (are)cared for(by immortals);

    αὐτίκα δ᾽ ἀθανάτοισι μέλει κίθαρις καὶ ἀοιδή:

    K: he knows our favorite

    Homer: but there and then —

    K: be gentle (what)

    H: it caused unquenchable laughter by blessed gods
    and goddesses, as they(we)saw(humble)Hephaistos hustle-
    bustling(by divine limp)through the house.

    K: but you know my body is sore
    (hey — )
    after adventure
    (its a euphemismos)

    ἄσβεστος δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐνῶρτο γέλως μακάρεσσι θεοῖσιν
    (600) ὡς ἴδον Ἥφαιστον διὰ δώματα ποιπνύοντα.

    H: as then the whole day long into the setting sun

    K: your hands map every(oh)knot

    H: they gave a feast(were feasted), and neither was anyones thumos

    K: tension(ahh)releasing

    H: (heart-spirit-hunger)(wetly)lacking(nor wanting)
    an equal feast,

    K: (ok yes, that feels good)

    H: nor indeed(did they lack)the all-around-
    beautiful lyre, which Apollo was(having
    and)holding

    K: (heartbeat slowing)whys that

    H: (hold, you)(o viper)

    ὣς τότε μὲν πρόπαν ἦμαρ ἐς ἠέλιον καταδύντα
    δαίνυντ᾽, οὐδέ τι θυμὸς ἐδεύετο δαιτὸς ἐΐσης,
    οὐ μὲν φόρμιγγος περικαλλέος ἣν ἔχ᾽ Ἀπόλλων,
    Μουσάων θ᾽ αἳ ἄειδον ἀμειβόμεναι ὀπὶ καλῇ.
    Iliad 1.604

    K: until your mouth(uh oh)

    A: and all the Muses(o Muses)together(get it, you)taking turns
    and exchanging by beautiful voice(word)(eye)(face)
    (it would call)(you are beauty-called),

    Μοῦσαι μέν θ᾽ ἅμα πᾶσαι ἀμειβόμεναι ὀπὶ καλῇ

    K: finds the side of our neck —

    they praise(by singing)there and then the divine gifts of gods and goddesses
    (gifts of seeings)and miseries of human beings,

    which(both)having(and holding)under immortal gods and goddesses(by
    gazings and contemplations)they live(living)(by livings)senseless
    and(indeed)helpless(amechanos), and not even are they able

    to find(discover, devise, get, gain)a cure for death
    nor indeed a defense against old age;

    (190) ὑμνεῦσίν ῥα θεῶν δῶρ᾽ ἄμβροτα ἠδ᾽ ἀνθρώπων
    τλημοσύνας, ὅσ᾽ ἔχοντες ὑπ᾽ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι
    ζώουσ᾽ ἀφραδέες καὶ ἀμήχανοι, οὐδὲ δύνανται
    εὑρέμεναι θανάτοιό τ᾽ ἄκος καὶ γήραος ἄλκαρ:

    K: ok but its a headache-causing headache-cure

    A: nevertheless the fair-haired Graces
    and well-hearted(cheerful, merry, kindly,
    gracious)Hours

    K: those hores

    A: and Harmonia(fastening-union-order-
    agreement-stringing)and Hebe(youthfulness)
    and daughter-of-Zeus Aphrodite,

    K: even Aphrodite?

    A: (they)dance(and leap and bound)holding one anothers hands
    at the(fruit, grain)wrist;

    αὐτὰρ ἐυπλόκαμοι Χάριτες καὶ ἐύφρονες Ὧραι
    (195) Ἁρμονίη θ᾽ Ἥβη τε Διὸς θυγάτηρ τ᾽ Ἀφροδίτη
    ὀρχεῦντ᾽ ἀλλήλων ἐπὶ καρπῷ χεῖρας ἔχουσαι:

    K: we didnt know we had a(fruit, grain)wrist

    H: but of them, the girls had fine(delicate-subtle)linen clothes(sail-cloth),

    K: its us!

    H: while the boys(sitting idly)wore well-spun tunics,

    K: omg, its them

    H: glistening softly
    with olive oil;

    K: yum.

    H: and the girls had beautiful circlets,

    K: we love circlets

    H: while the boys

    K: give us fantasy!

    H: had golden daggers hanging from silver belt-straps.

    (595) τῶν δ᾽ αἳ μὲν λεπτὰς ὀθόνας ἔχον, οἳ δὲ χιτῶνας
    εἵατ᾽ ἐϋννήτους, ἦκα στίλβοντας ἐλαίῳ:
    καί ῥ᾽ αἳ μὲν καλὰς στεφάνας ἔχον, οἳ δὲ μαχαίρας
    εἶχον χρυσείας ἐξ ἀργυρέων τελαμώνων.

    K: yesss

    H: but when the boys ran(we ran)by knowing(standing-on)feet, very
    (secretly)easily;

    K: hows that

    H: as when some potter, seating(-himself)will trial
    and test a close-fitted wheel in the palms(of his hands),

    K: uh-huh

    H: the girls, by seeing, would set and run and shine;

    K: oh,

    H: but at another(time)again(bow wow)the girls would run
    across(you march)the rows, to-for-by one-another.

    οἳ δ᾽ ὁτὲ μὲν θρέξασκον ἐπισταμένοισι πόδεσσι
    (600) ῥεῖα μάλ᾽, ὡς ὅτε τις τροχὸν ἄρμενον ἐν παλάμῃσιν
    ἑζόμενος κεραμεὺς πειρήσεται, αἴ κε θέῃσιν:
    ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖ θρέξασκον ἐπὶ στίχας ἀλλήλοισι.

    K: oh heavens,

    H: but a crowd of many was standing

    K: stand, yall!

    H: around the lovely(himeroeis)dance-
    chorus, being filled with solace
    and cheer;

    K: well, we hope so,

    H: but two(a dyad of)tumbling acrobats among them,

    K: us??

    H: initiating-ruling the song and dance, were whirling

    K: we whirl! we whirl!

    H: (yes, but)through the middle.

    πολλὸς δ᾽ ἱμερόεντα χορὸν περιίσταθ᾽ ὅμιλος
    τερπόμενοι:
    (605) δοιὼ δὲ κυβιστητῆρε κατ᾽ αὐτοὺς
    μολπῆς ἐξάρχοντες ἐδίνευον κατὰ μέσσους.

    K: (whirling into the poet)sorry —

    H: but —

    K: (in disbelief) what powers this?

    H: into(it)he put the great and mighty river Ocean
    around the outermost rim of the solidly-made shield.

    ἐν δ᾽ ἐτίθει ποταμοῖο μέγα σθένος Ὠκεανοῖο
    ἄντυγα πὰρ πυμάτην σάκεος πύκα ποιητοῖο.
    Iliad 18.594-608

    K: you guys know we love the beach!

    A: by which indeed(it)celebrates(after)with(meta)song
    neither shameful
    nor mean;

    K: (dreamily)he had us at hephaestos

    A: but(its)very(dyad-secret)(stage whispers)and large
    to see and(indeed)form(o
    form)admirable,

    K: OMG! omg omg its — (covers own mouth)

    A: Artemis arrow-pouring(being)nursed the same with(by)Apollo.

    K: . . . o monumental!

    τῇσι μὲν οὔτ᾽ αἰσχρὴ μεταμέλπεται οὔτ᾽ ἐλάχεια,
    ἀλλὰ μάλα μεγάλη τε ἰδεῖν καὶ εἶδος ἀγητή,
    Ἄρτεμις ἰοχέαιρα ὁμότροφος Ἀπόλλωνι.

    from hymn 3 to Apollo

    (I of XVIII books, in 21 parts, over one moon)

    ∞

    heirloom(ashes?) of nine parts over twelve days (9/9 and 1)

    but of all human beings, they know
    by having seen(a few)( glimpses of what could be )
    to(m)imitate(mimeisthai)mimitate(sthai)
    (a wall of birdsong from the east)
    the babbling, chit-chattering, stammering of tongues
    of all human beings(a few)( glimpses of what could be )and indeed
    imiter - 真似する - imitar
    ꦤꦶꦫꦸ - nabootsen - 모방하다
    efterligne - efterlikna - etterligne
    jäljitellä - подражать - naśladować
    the voices(sounds)(tones)(cries)(utterances)(speeches)(languages)
    napodobovat - imitārī - يُحاكي
    öykünmek - לחקות - meniru
    imitare - 模仿 - nachahmen
    imitate - अनुकरण - تقلید کردن
    of all human beings(a few)( glimpses of what could be )and indeed
    the babbling, chit-chattering, stammering of tongues
    (a wall of birdsong from the east)
    to(m)imitate(mimeisthai)mimitate(sthai)
    they know(a few)( glimpses of what could be )
    by having seen, all human beings

    but each(himself)itself would say,
    yous utter, lift up the voice, speak, call out,
    are uttering, lifting the voice, speaking, calling out,
    to utter lift up the voice, speak, call out
    so utter! voice! speak! call out!

    thus(to)(for)by(its)thems
    the(she)beautiful(o beautiful)song(o song)
    they join-fasten-construct-gratify-please-fix-together
    the(she)beautiful(o beautiful)song(o song).

    πάντων δ᾽ ἀνθρώπων φωνὰς καὶ βαμβαλιαστὺν
    μιμεῖσθ᾽ ἴσασιν: φαίη δέ κεν αὐτὸς ἕκαστος
    φθέγγεσθ᾽: οὕτω σφιν καλὴσυνάρηρεν ἀοιδή.

    but come on,
    hes being driven and led, brought and taken, steered and carried-off as by its cause,
    yous are keeping and taking and bringing him, like an animal, steering the ship
    and leading him on, like fate, you carry him off, as by his cause —
    celebrate him, bring him back, keep him in memory, be his cause, you both!

    he would be gracious indeed, would lend a gracious ear, Apollo(o Apollo),
    Artemis-shows-from-afar, Artemis-dia-xun, Artemis-all-through-together —

    but in book 21, Penelope fetches and brings the bow of Odysseus, from its peg,
    where it hangs in the shining case that covers it; she promises marriage to the one
    who can string the bow and send an arrow — cleanly — through all twelve axes;
    Antinoös pretends to be humble, but hes not, and hell be the first to taste the arrow
    from the one whom he gives no attention, from the beggars blameless hands; and
    Telemachos tries three times to draw the bow; and on his fourth try, he couldve —
    but Od gives a sign, so Tel lays low, drawing instead shame on himself, declining
    to try again; as Ant leads-on the others to try, in turn; Leodes, son of Oinops,
    a diviner, who pronounces the doom of the bow, which will rend many princes
    from life and soul; but Ant castigates him, pronouncing his word-song terrible
    and shameful; he directs them to heat and wax to bend the bow, and leads-on
    the others to try; as the others are trying, and failing, Odysseus conspires
    with the oxherd and swineherd; first, he tests and recognizes their infallible
    tempers; then he reveals himself, by the scar he took from the boars white tooth;
    they weep, and kiss, and embrace, and kiss, their heads and shoulders and hands;
    then he makes, with them, his plans; finally, to be given his bow, as the women
    lock and bar the suitors in, and themselves, women, outside, that they mustnt
    peep, if any of them hears; they must simply sit still
    at their work, in silence.
    (Odyssey 21.1-239)

    but the girls ignore “nobodys” orders not to watch(even if Telemachos
    hadnt said not to follow orders, we still wouldnt follow orders);
    and the suitors try; and they fail; and Eurymachos speaks the shame of falling so far
    short of Ods strength; Ant proposes, saying, “but come, come on,” lets go drink
    his wine, and instruct his goatherd to slaughter his goats, and offer them to Apollo —

    would a far-working-lord-master be gracious? Od slaughters all of them, even if
    they ask for mercy, except for the singer, who was forced, and the herald, who was
    loyal. Odysseus asks the old nurse maid to snitch on the women-servants, and she
    hands over those who were extra naughty. there happened to be twelve.

    Odysseus makes them clean the mess, then orders his son, Telemachos,
    to slaughter them:

    so there and then he spoke, and(taking)the ships cable(persuasion)of a lapis-
    lazuli-prowed(ship), fastening it to a big pillar, he threw it around the rotunda,
    aloft making(it)fast, so that none would reach the ground by their feet.

    but as when if or thrushes(by thrushes)with long-spread-wings — ah! rock-
    pigeons, strike against a fence(o dyad-wall), and theyd stand into the bush,
    sending into a roost, but hated showed(indicated)(marked out)(received in-
    to ones house, welcome)(entertained, gave ear to, admitted, allowed, took
    on-board, to bear patiently, undertook, promised, accepted as responsibility,
    received in succession)the(sleep)resting-place(a bed),

    as they(shes)at least one-after-another, having and holding(we have and hold,
    they have and hold)(their)heads, but on both sides(around)by all(their)throats
    nooses(snares for birds)(they)were, so that most pitiable they would die.

    but they(we)were panting, gasping, struggling with(their)feet a small little bit
    not for any such long(o secretly-dyad-arm-pits)while.

    ὣς ἄρ᾽ ἔφη, καὶ πεῖσμα νεὸς κυανοπρῴροιο
    κίονος ἐξάψας μεγάλης περίβαλλε θόλοιο,
    ὑψόσ᾽ ἐπεντανύσας, μή τις ποσὶν οὖδας ἵκοιτο.
    ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἂν ἢ κίχλαι τανυσίπτεροι ἠὲ πέλειαι
    ἕρκει ἐνιπλήξωσι, τό θ᾽ ἑστήκῃ ἐνὶ θάμνῳ,
    αὖλιν ἐσιέμεναι, στυγερὸς δ᾽ ὑπεδέξατο κοῖτος,
    ὣς αἵ γ᾽ ἑξείης κεφαλὰς ἔχον, ἀμφὶ δὲ πάσαις
    δειρῇσι βρόχοι ἦσαν, ὅπως οἴκτιστα θάνοιεν.
    ἤσπαιρον δὲ πόδεσσι μίνυνθά περ οὔ τι μάλα δήν.
    (Odyssey 22.465-473)

    (then they treat Melanthios to something ugly, which we skip - then)

    they(indeed, it was imminent)thereupon washed off(their)hands and feet
    into(you are)Odysseus house they went(we are)(going), but he had finished
    (accomplished)(executed)(performed)the work;

    nevertheless he(Od)at least spoke-through to the beloved nurse(who nourishes)
    Eurykleia;

    “bring brimstone(the divine)(o divine brimstone), old woman, remedy of evils,
    but bring(to)(for)by me fire, so that (we)would(we will)purify(hallow)(con-
    secrate)(you are purified)the large room(great hall, womens apartment, bed-
    chamber, sanctuary, shrine, tomb); but you order Penelope to come(go)hither
    (thither)with(her)busied-about(handmaids)(attendants)(waiting-)women;

    οἱ μὲν ἔπειτ᾽ ἀπονιψάμενοι χεῖράς τε πόδας τε
    εἰς Ὀδυσῆα δόμονδε κίον, τετέλεστο δὲ ἔργον:
    480αὐτὰρ ὅ γε προσέειπε φίλην τροφὸν Εὐρύκλειαν:
    ‘οἶσε θέειον, γρηΰ, κακῶν ἄκος, οἶσε δέ μοι πῦρ,
    ὄφρα θεειώσω μέγαρον: σὺ δὲ Πηνελόπειαν
    ἐλθεῖν ἐνθάδ᾽ ἄνωχθι σὺν ἀμφιπόλοισι γυναιξί:

    but all(you sprinkle)(sprinkling)(you stir up, encourage)(they were stirring)we
    were stirring-up(and encouraging)fem-slaves to go(to heap and pile-up)against
    through(to)the house.

    but the beloved nurse(she who nourishes)Eurykleia again to him spoke-through;

    “yes(it was binding)(it was needful)(need and bind)(need, you)(dyad-of-the-god)(bind,
    you)at least these, o my child, all you said was against(through)according
    to portion(destiny)(part)(share)(lot)(that which is meet and right)(order)(due-
    measure)(fate).

    but come(she leads, carries, brings)(lead, carry, fetch, bring, you)we would carry
    (you carry)(you send in)(to)(for)by you a cloak(blanket)and tunic clothes,

    and not this way by rags(having-being-)covered broad(far-reaching)shoulders
    (she had been set)(yous had made a stand)(yous have made, make a stand!)(she
    has been set)(you)make a stand in the big rooms(womens apartments)(shrines);
    but(it would be)(she lets, she suffers)(let, you)(suffer, you)reprehensible.

    πάσας δ᾽ ὄτρυνον δμῳὰς κατὰ δῶμα νέεσθαι.
    ’ 485τὸν δ᾽ αὖτε προσέειπε φίλη τροφὸς Εὐρύκλεια:
    ‘ναὶ δὴ ταῦτά γε, τέκνον ἐμόν, κατὰ μοῖραν ἔειπες.
    ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε τοι χλαῖνάν τε χιτῶνά τε εἵματ᾽ ἐνείκω,
    μηδ᾽ οὕτω ῥάκεσιν πεπυκασμένος εὐρέας ὤμους
    ἕσταθ᾽ ἐνὶ μεγάροισι: νεμεσσητὸν δέ κεν εἴη.

    but exchanging-replies-from her, polymetis(many-measured, many-skilled,
    many-counseled, many-plans)Odysseus was speaking-through;

    “fire now(to)(for)by me firstest(o firstest)in the big rooms, become-it."

    τὴν δ᾽ ἀπαμειβόμενος προσέφη πολύμητις Ὀδυσσεύς:
    ‘πῦρ νῦν μοι πρώτιστον ἐνὶ μεγάροισι γενέσθω.'

    so he said(yous say), and not even did beloved nurse(she who nourishes)Eurykleia
    disobey, but(she)brought(bore)(carried)(they had sent up and forth)(sprung up)(let-
    go)(set free)(loosened)(unfastened)(stirred-up)(urged-on)(caused a wind to blow)
    then and there fire and(the divine)brimstone; nevertheless Odysseus well fumigated
    (purified)(hallowed)the big room and the house and courtyard.

    ὣς ἔφατ᾽, οὐδ᾽ ἀπίθησε φίλη τροφὸς Εὐρύκλεια,
    ἤνεικεν δ᾽ ἄρα πῦρ καὶ θήϊον: αὐτὰρ Ὀδυσσεὺς
    εὖ διεθείωσεν μέγαρον καὶ δῶμα καὶ αὐλήν.

    but the old woman again went off through the beautiful house of beautiful Odysseus
    will-announcing(bearing, carrying, delivering, passing-on, relaying)(a message,
    news, information, a command, instructions)and by women will-stirring-up(rousing,
    egging-on, spurring-on, encouraging)to go(to heap and pile-up); but(shes)they knew
    (they were going and coming)(equal)out of the big room(shrine), having and holding
    (o havings and holdings)torches(between)(among)(belonging to)
    the(ir) — igniting the fire — hands.

    γρηῢς δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἀπέβη διὰ δώματα κάλ᾽ Ὀδυσῆος
    ἀγγελέουσα γυναιξὶ καὶ ὀτρυνέουσα νέεσθαι:
    αἱ δ᾽ ἴσαν ἐκ μεγάροιο δάος μετὰ χερσὶν ἔχουσαι.

    (shes)they indeed, there and then, were being-poured(shed)around(embracing)
    and welcoming kindly(saluting)(greeting)(receiving with joy)(cleaving to)Odysseus,
    and(shameless)(they-shes)were kissing(we were kissing)will-showing-affection(o
    will-be-loving)the head and shoulders(and upper arms)and taking-hold(o taking-
    hold of)hands;

    but(him)the sweet longing was capturing(grasping)(seizing)(winning)(gaining)
    overcoming)(proving)him of weeping(lamentation)and of wailing(groaning)(sighs),

    but there and then, he recognized(perceived)(came to know)(recognize, you!)
    by phren(hearts-middles-minds)(the women)(you are sprinkling)(o
    sprinkling)(o weaving-in)(with pharmakon)all(the women).

    (we)look how brightly we burn —

    αἱ μὲν ἄρ᾽ ἀμφεχέοντο καὶ ἠσπάζοντ᾽ Ὀδυσῆα,
    καὶ κύνεον ἀγαπαξόμεναι κεφαλήν τε καὶ ὤμους
    χεῖράς τ᾽ αἰνύμεναι: τὸν δὲ γλυκὺς ἵμερος ᾕρει
    κλαυθμοῦ καὶ στοναχῆς, γίγνωσκε δ᾽ ἄρα φρεσὶ πάσας.
    Odyssey, the rest of book xxii)

    ἀλλ᾽ ἄγεθ᾽ ἱλήκοι μὲν Ἀπόλλων Ἀρτέμιδιξύν,

    but all yous rejoice, all yous are rejoicing, rejoice all yous(get it, you!),

    and we just burned out your eyes?

    but(behind)me(you would be thrown up)and(indeed)from behind(in the rear)
    you(all)remember, to remember, remember(all)you,

    whenever someone amongst earth-dwelling(across-the-earth)(chthonos)human
    beings, by accustomed-familiar,

    would fasten-on(would be fastened-to)(he would string-through)(would
    be strung-through)(and he would inquire-of and question)

    the stranger(guest-friend)(wanderer)(host)(foreigner)(refugee)(mercenary
    soldier)much-suffering(talapeirios)(man),

    coming and going(o comes-and-goes)(o whereto and wherefrom);

    χαίρετε δ᾽ ὑμεῖς πᾶσαι: ἐμεῖο δὲ καὶ μετόπισθεν (Od?)
    μνήσασθ᾽, ὁππότε κέν τις ἐπιχθονίων ἀνθρώπων (Od?)
    ἐθάδ᾽ ἁνείρηται ξεῖνος ταλαπείριος ἐλθών: (Od?)

    O girls, but who(which)(what)by yous the man the most pleasant and merry,
    sweetly and welcome, balmy, refreshing, gladly and heartily content,
    amongst the singers(minstrels)(bards)of songs,
    (here)there(goes)(he)goes-up-and-down(and to-and-fro)(and
    hes offered for sale),

    and(indeed)by which-who are yous most being(be satisfied! delighted!
    and gladdened! and cheered!)satisfied, delighted, gladdened, and cheered?

    ὦ κοῦραι, τίς δ᾽ ὔμμιν ἀνὴρ ἥδιστος ἀοιδῶν
    ἐνθάδε πωλεῖται, καὶ τέῳ τέρπεσθε μάλιστα;

    but all-yous(o dyad-arm-pits, dyad-underhanded, dyad-secrets)very-
    well-all(get it, yous!)to reply(interpret)(as dreams)(explain)(speak
    in dialogue)(deliver)(play, pretend, deceive)(answer)as
    the(a-phemos)(un-famous)un-known —

    ὑμεῖς δ᾽ εὖ μάλα πᾶσαι ὑποκρίνασθαι ἀφήμως: (Od?)

    “(a)blind(dark, dim, obscure)(closed, with no outlet)(tight)(dark, trackless)(un-
    escapable)man,

    but he is living(in-habits)in(you are being-lived-in)(by a roommate, a house-
    servant, a serf)(to)(for)by-rugged-Chios-in(hes being-
    present-and-possible-in)(her rugged)

    whose(songs)(o songs)(o spells, o incantations)(our-bitches-chew)from
    behind(in the rear!)would be best(by beings best)(they will be best)(songs
    whos).

    τυφλὸς ἀνήρ, οἰκεῖ δὲ Χίῳ ἔνι παιπαλοέσσῃ
    τοῦ μᾶσαι μετόπισθεν ἀριστεύσουσιν ἀοιδαί.

    we(but we)will bring(bear, carry, draw along, fetch, carry off)your(o
    your)news(rumor, report, repute, fame, renown, glory),

    howsoever far as across the land(earth)(of human beings)we are twisted
    and turned(rotated, upset, deflected, guided, veered, tortured, braided, re-
    plied, returned, given back, converted, revolving in circles, turned
    and changed, engaged, wheeling about)

    the(well-dwelling)cities(o cities)of human beings(you go about, range-
    over, haunt)(of human beings)well-dwelling;

    ἡμεῖς δ᾽ ὑμέτερον κλέος οἴσομεν, ὅσσον ἐπ᾽ αἶαν
    ἀνθρώπων στρεφόμεσθα πόλεις εὖ ναιεταώσας:

    they(but they)(upon)across(in fact)(it was needful)(it was binding)
    (need, you)(dyad-of-the-god)(bind, you)

    they will suffer(undergo, endure, have laid-upon-them, being called-upon to bear,
    have-happen to them, being treated, affected, feeling, with passion, being acted-
    upon, receive benefits, hard experience, punishment, and enjoy)

    and they will be persuaded(won over, prevailed upon, urged successfully, brought
    over, induced to believe)(they will yield, believe-in, be convinced)(they
    will trust, rely upon, have confidence-in, be emboldened),

    and indeed, since you already are following-upon the dyad-word-song,
    its(we-being)true.

    οἳ δ᾽ ἐπὶ δὴ πείσονται, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἐτήτυμόν ἐστιν.

    nevertheless i(we!)will not cease(you wouldnt be ceased)(singing! celebrating! over
    and over again)Apollo who throws-

    from-afar, singing(o singing)with(our)silver bow,

    whom lovely-haired(she, Leto)(behold!)(seize!)produced(you produce,
    too!)into the world, Leto.

    αὐτὰρ ἐγὼν οὐ λήξω ἑκηβόλον Ἀπόλλωνα
    ὑμνέων ἀργυρότοξον, ὃν ἠύκομος τέκε Λητώ.


    from hymn 3 to Apollo

    (dog-we, of burning-nose, may need
    another 4-day cycle
    or we-dog lifetime
    to go back and fill
    more in)
    .~.

    ∞

    heirloom of nine parts over twelve days (5/6 and 8/9)

    but(him)self, o bearer of the silver-bow, lord who throws-from-afar(hekatebolos)Apollo,

    at one time(and indeed)across rugged Kynthos you go(you take your way)
    (pass)(set out)(run)(get onto, out of, into something)(you go on-board
    or disembark)(a ship)(to bestride and protect a fallen friend)(or
    to drag the body off)(of an enemy)(you mount a chariot
    and stand beside another),

    but at another(time, you go)wandering aimlessly around
    to shun and flee-from islands and men.

    αὐτὸς δ᾽, ἀργυρότοξε, ἄναξ ἑκατηβόλ᾽ Ἄπολλον,
    ἄλλοτε μέν τ᾽ ἐπὶ Κύνθου ἐβήσαο παιπαλόεντος,
    ἄλλοτε δ᾽ ἂν νήσους τε καὶ ἀνέρας ἠλάσκαζες.

    many(o many)to(for)(by)you(are)the temple-dwellings and the woody(with tree-
    like markings)groves;

    but all(o all)(whole)(get, you)(acquire, you)(possess, you)the lookout-places(hill-
    tops)(peaks)and(watch-towers)and(the friends, o friend, by the friend)he
    would love the highest(topmost)(outmost)(inmost)headlands(cliffs
    and bluffs)of lofty mountains(and lofty asses, well, and lofty mules),
    and the(nine)rivers flowing-through(o flowing)into the sea;

    πολλοί τοι νηοί τε καὶ ἄλσεα δενδρήεντα:
    πᾶσαι δὲ σκοπιαί τε φίλαι καὶ πρώονες ἄκροι
    ὑψηλῶν ὀρέων ποταμοί θ᾽ ἅλαδε προρέοντες:

    but you(to)(for)by Delos, o Phoibos(bright, radiant, pure), you most delight
    and gladden, cheer, make content the(etor)heart(life-passion),

    ἀλλὰ σὺ Δήλῳ, Φοῖβε, μάλιστ᾽ ἐπιτέρπεαι ἦτορ,

    (as Odysseus, even in the midst of his tall-tale, admits of ships
    driven by oars, and wars, and throwing spears and arrows, o dyad-
    mournful(sorry)(good-for-nothing)(wretched)(painful)things,
    which by others at least become horrible, nevertheless,

    those things(to)(for)by him, is(the)beloved, which somehow the god
    had put there, in his phrenes(heart-breast-perception-memory-
    desire-anger-inward-thought); for different men(he men-
    splains, as he lies)take joy in different works.

    ἀλλά μοι αἰεὶ νῆες ἐπήρετμοι φίλαι ἦσαν
    καὶ πόλεμοι καὶ ἄκοντες ἐΰξεστοι καὶ ὀϊστοί,
    λυγρά, τά τ᾽ ἄλλοισίν γε καταριγηλὰ πέλονται.
    αὐτὰρ ἐμοὶ τὰ φίλ᾽ ἔσκε τά που θεὸς ἐν φρεσὶ θῆκεν:
    ἄλλος γάρ τ᾽ ἄλλοισιν ἀνὴρ ἐπιτέρπεται ἔργοις.
    Odyssey 14.224)

    there(to)(for)by you the Ionians with their trailing tunics gather together
    their(him)selves with children and with worthy
    and venerable bed-partners and wives.

    ἔνθα τοι ἑλκεχίτωνες Ἰάονες ἠγερέθονται
    αὐτοῖς σὺν παίδεσσι καὶ αἰδοίῃς ἀλόχοισιν.

    (as black Ajax and red Ajax would never take their stand apart, on
    the battlefield at Troy, not even a little; but as, into the fallow land,
    wine-dyad-dark-oxen(fixed-together-plough in equal-thumos-spirit-
    power-drive)both-bearing(carrying)(bringing)they stretch(stretch,
    you!)and bend(bend it!)and draw-it-out(you, do that too!)
    the fixed-together-plough;

    but, there and then, on both sides, from their under-end-most-horns
    much sweat gushes(so you two, spout)forth;

    and they-two(indeed)the polished-yoke-alone-apart-it-works(it bars
    the way)(youre worked)(youre barred)dyad-releasing(letting go,
    hurling, throwing, sending, letting flow and spouting forth)through-
    and-against the furrow;

    but(it)overtakes(reaches)(finds)(will-be-accomplishing)(arise,
    you!)the limit of the earths arable land;

    so they-two, beside-both-standing, beside-both-passing-beyond,
    beside-both-transgressing, exceedingly they make their stand,
    (to)(for)(by)(belonging)an-other-to-the-one.

    Αἴας δ᾽ οὐκέτι πάμπαν Ὀϊλῆος ταχὺς υἱὸς
    ἵστατ᾽ ἀπ᾽ Αἴαντος Τελαμωνίου οὐδ᾽ ἠβαιόν,
    ἀλλ᾽ ὥς τ᾽ ἐν νειῷ βόε οἴνοπε πηκτὸν ἄροτρον
    ἶσον θυμὸν ἔχοντε τιταίνετον: ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρά σφι
    πρυμνοῖσιν κεράεσσι πολὺς ἀνακηκίει ἱδρώς:
    τὼ μέν τε ζυγὸν οἶον ἐΰξοον ἀμφὶς ἐέργει
    ἱεμένω κατὰ ὦλκα: τέμει δέ τε τέλσον ἀρούρης:
    ὣς τὼ παρβεβαῶτε μάλ᾽ ἕστασαν ἀλλήλοιιν.
    Iliad 13.701)

    but those by boxing(you) and dancing(you) and singing(you),
    (they)remembering you(they delight, gladden, and satisfy)with joy,
    delight, gladness, and cheer, that they would make their stand(-up-
    right, stand-up, rise-up, begin, stand-still, anew)their struggle,
    battle, action, assembly, contest, argument, issue — their AGON.

    οἱ δέ σε πυγμαχίῃ τε καὶ ὀρχηθμῷ καὶ ἀοιδῇ
    μνησάμενοι τέρπουσιν, ὅτ᾽ ἄν στήσωνται ἀγῶνα.

    and he(indeed)would say, to be undying and ageless always,
    which thereby would come-and-go to meet,
    that Ionians altogether-as-a-body
    (o all-together, all-at-once)
    would very-well-be;

    φαίη κ᾽ ἀθανάτους καὶ ἀγήρως ἔμμεναι αἰεί,
    ὃς τόθ᾽ ὑπαντιάσει᾽, ὅτ᾽ Ἰάονες ἀθρόοι εἶεν:

    for of all would he see grace, favor, beauty, glory, kindness, good-
    will, gratitude, gratification, delight, satisfaction; but he would
    take pleasure in, enjoy, rejoice, have full enjoyment in, the thumos
    and men — (he)(o he)looking into(upon)beholding — and women
    with beautiful girdles(and leashes)and swift ships(with ship-like temple-
    dwellings)and of swift-selves, their possessions(property, heirlooms,
    “the fur coat grandma wore”, you add, and we say sure, and wealth,
    estates, farms, fields, vineyards, materials)both-many-and-both.

    πάντων γάρ κεν ἴδοιτο χάριν, τέρψαιτο δὲ θυμὸν
    ἄνδρας τ᾽ εἰσορόων καλλιζώνους τε γυναῖκας
    νῆάς τ᾽ ὠκείας ἠδ᾽ αὐτῶν κτήματα πολλά.


    (just as the beautiful girdles, maybe fur coats too, in the fake-wedding, when

    Odysseus has newly-burst-forth from his disguise and slaughtered the suitors,
    and the old maid wakes-up Penelope, from a very good sleep, to tell her; and it
    must be the happiest of all moments in the whole history of human poetry, after
    one of terrifying brutality; but Pen doesnt go to him right away; she holds back
    her trust, telling their son that they have signs known only by themselves, to prove
    they are(to)(for)(by)each other; and Odysseus pretends to hold a wedding,
    to distract the Ithakans from the fact he has just butchered their best youth;
    or, as he voices-meta-through:

    “but we have killed the prop(support)(stay of the city)(the sunken rock,
    reef)(bank)(barrow)(that which keeps a ship steady, ballast,
    and also earrings, maybe Heras mulberry ones
    from yesterday — ),

    those great-most-excellent-ones among(young men)the shoots-
    and-consequences of satiety, surfeit, and insolence)in Ithaka;

    but those, we have ordered you
    to consider(purpose, plan, contrive)(perceive,
    observe — watch — guard — beware)."

    ἡμεῖς δ᾽ ἕρμα πόληος ἀπέκταμεν, οἳ μέγ᾽ ἄριστοι
    κούρων εἰν Ἰθάκῃ: τὰ δέ σε φράζεσθαι ἄνωγα.

    but Eurynome cleans all the gore from Odysseus so that hes suffused again
    with beauty, as when a craftsman gold-overlays-on-silver; so we again can see
    his locks of hair-hung-down like purple hyacinth; so-looking-immortal goes he
    to meet Penelope; he calls her strange, she calls him strange; then she tests him,
    by telling the maid to bring his bed; and Odysseus proves himself, by saying, you
    cant do that, as we made our own bed, so we know it very well; especially by one
    particular feature, which only he could accomplish; which was, he built it from
    a living tree, roots in the ground; Pen melts into tears and asks him forgive-
    ness; Pen-splaining, the jealous gods gave them misery based on how happy
    they would have been together, throughout their youth; but there are many men
    who would have tried to deceive her, and thats why she has to test him; Pen-
    splaining-further, that neither would Helen have gone with Paris, and become
    the center of the Trojan war, had she not been so deceived; from which we may
    conclude, that she tests him, as taking such precautions now, against
    ever being the woman
    at the center
    of a war;

    and then he appears, to her, as welcome as the land to men who are drowning,
    and she couldnt let him go from her white-armed, like Heras, earths, embrace;
    and Athena holds back time, so that they have enough of it, for tears, for hugs,
    for conversation, and Od tells Pen about his sign; until the old-maid Eurynome
    dresses their bed for them(probably we should check her out);
    but they, as one might put it, “gladly went
    together to bed, and their old ritual."

    but his voices-meta-through,

    “and they(by himself)(by herself)(indeed)thereupon-gladly-welcomed(o gladly-
    welcomed ones)of the ancient(couch)bed(lektron)(yous make ancient)(make
    it ancient, yous, that which is laid down)(the site, the place)(the rite, the law,
    the order)(rule, precept, right)(tribunal,

    they)come to walk-about(approach)(reach)(take their way)(visit)(present-
    their-self-to)(to come or fall into their hands, approach
    as one(we)suppliant, having-reached-home, after
    swimming, spinning, and piling-in-
    heaps,

    their deepmost law
    (our zebra-dove)
    of peace."

    οἱ μὲν ἔπειτα
    ἀσπάσιοι λέκτροιο παλαιοῦ θεσμὸν ἵκοντο:
    Od. 23.147-296)

    but toward this great wonder, of which the rumour(report, fame, glory)never
    will it perish(come to an end)(die)(be lost)(undone)(in a state of)(ruin),

    those girls(maidens)(nymphs)(daughters)(puppets)(dolls)(pupils of
    the eye)(in the hieron)(o girls), who as women we call the Deliades,
    of the far-shooting-one, are the handmaids(o handmaids)(dwellings);

    cf Phaedrus

    πρὸς δὲ τόδε μέγα θαῦμα, ὅου κλέος οὔποτ᾽ ὀλεῖται,
    κοῦραι Δηλιάδες, ἑκατηβελέταο θεράπναι:

    and those(shes)since(you are already following the dyad-word-song)there
    and then, the first(o first)indeed(on the one hand)Apollo(they)would sing
    (celebrate, commemorate, make famous, tell over and over again, recite,
    repeat, harp upon(him),

    )but(on the other hand)back again, anew, in turn,
    hereafter, again further(bow wow)(aouuu)
    Leto and(indeed)Artemis, pourer-forth-of-arrows,

    αἵ τ᾽ ἐπεὶ ἂρ πρῶτον μὲν Ἀπόλλων᾽ ὑμνήσωσιν,
    αὖτις δ᾽ αὖ Λητώ τε καὶ Ἄρτεμιν ἰοχέαιραν,

    (o shes)remembering(him)and of men(o rearing-up)(rearing)(the rearing-
    up into manhood)and of old age(o ageing)(ageing)(the ageing)and
    of women(they)sing the hymn,

    but(they)work upon by spells and enchantment(bewitch)(charm)(spell-bind)(work
    upon by wiles)(cajole)(beguile, deceive, cheat)(charm, delight, ravish)
    (by hims-and-theys-enchanting)

    the tribes(races, classes, swarms, nations)(of tribes races, classes,
    swarms, nations)(by tribes, races, classes, swarms,
    nations)of human beings.

    μνησάμεναι ἀνδρῶν τε παλαιῶν ἠδὲ γυναικῶν
    ὕμνον ἀείδουσιν, θέλγουσι δὲ φῦλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων.


    from hymn 3 to Apollo

    ∞

    fog of nine parts over twelve days (7/9 and 3/4)

    there(o)you, eie!(coming and going)(hearing and seeing)Phoibos(pure, bright
    radiant one),

    the goddesses(seeings)(you run)(you shine)(you gaze)(she would gaze)(you
    would be put in place)(by looking at)(by contemplation)(by
    the sight)(o seeings)

    were bathing(you)with beautiful(wood)(reefing rope)freshwater purely
    and cleanly, were wrapping in white(light)(bright)(clear)swaddling
    cloth(fine, thin, delicate)(weak)(slight)(subtle)(refined)
    and fresh-woven;

    but around(you)they(released)(let go)(let loose)(made flow)(uttered
    and spoke)(threw)(hurled)(shot)(spouted forth)(sent)
    the golden-twisting-cord.

    ἔνθα σέ, ἤιε Φοῖβε, θεαὶ λόον ὕδατι καλῷ
    ἁγνῶς καὶ καθαρῶς, σπάρξαν δ᾽ ἐν φάρεϊ λευκῷ,
    λεπτῷ, νηγατέῳ: περὶ δὲ χρύσεον στρόφον ἧκαν.

    not even, there and then, did the mother(o source)(o origin)suckle Apollo
    of the golden weapon,

    but Themis(whats right to do)(ruled over)(supplied)(offered)poured the first
    drops of nectar and lovely ambrosia
    with(her)immortal hands;

    but Leto(behold)(seize)rejoiced, because she was giving birth
    to a bow-bearing and steadfast child.

    οὐδ᾽ ἄρ᾽ Ἀπόλλωνα χρυσάορα θήσατο μήτηρ,
    ἀλλὰ Θέμις νέκταρ τε καὶ ἀμβροσίην ἐρατεινὴν
    ἀθανάτῃσιν χερσὶν ἐπήρξατο: χαῖρε δὲ Λητώ,
    οὕνεκα τοξοφόρον καὶ καρτερὸν υἱὸν ἔτικτεν.

    nevertheless(since)(you are)already(following)(the dyad-word-song)(it
    was binding)(it was needful)(both)(need and bind, yous),
    o Phoibos(pure, bright, radiant one),

    (you)ate up(devoured)the ambrosial(we missed the mark)(they
    missed the mark)(hamartia)food,

    you wouldnt be(panting)(gasping)(struggling convulsively)at least(she
    approaches)(has)(had been sat)thereupon(had sent)(has sent)(you all
    would send)(she had been put-on)(she has been put-on)(i
    was restraining)(by the word-songs)the golden-twisting-
    cords(were restraining)(restraining)not
    you(panting)(gasping)(struggling
    convulsively)at least,

    αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δή, Φοῖβε, κατέβρως ἄμβροτον εἶδαρ,
    οὔ σέ γ᾽ ἔπειτ᾽ ἴσχον χρύσεοι στρόφοι ἀσπαίροντα,

    nor still do the bonds hold(you)back,

    (you hold you back, you),

    but they(the bonds)were releasing all of the ends(tools)(tackle)(ropes)(cords)(limits)
    (boundaries)(completions)(the comings-to-pass)(crises or supreme moments)
    (decisions)(determinations)(modes)(means)(verdicts)(dooms)
    (instruments)(the final or essential points)
    (the sum and the substance);

    (as Nestor delivered to his son, on driving the horse-drawn chariot around
    the not-rotted-tree-post(grave-marker)(racing goal of ancient men)with two
    white stones leaning on either side, the joining-place of ways, stating
    there was no great need to instruct him, for he had been loved
    and taught by Poseidon and Zeus;

    but he said, your work will be heavy, because your horse may be
    the slowest; so keep your eye always on the post, and hug(tree-
    post)(grave-marker)it and yourself,
    lean

    a little to the left, urging-on the right horse, giving full-free-rein; and keep
    the left horse hard-against and nearly-touching the tree, until the hub
    of the strongly-built wheel will seem to touch it, but not enough
    to really brush against it, which would break
    the chariot, the horses, yourself.
    Iliad 23.305-350)

    οὐδ᾽ ἔτι δέσματ᾽ ἔρυκε, λύοντο δὲ πείρατα πάντα.

    but at once by femmortals(feminine + immortals)Phoibos(pure, bright,
    radiant)Apollo was voicing-meta:

    (meta - concerning community or participation; action in common
    with another; in the midst of; succession; pursuit; letting go; after,
    behind; reversely; repeated action or a change in position
    or condition; movement)

    αὐτίκα δ᾽ ἀθανάτῃσι μετηύδα Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων: ‘

    “dyad-bows(it lets)(let it)would be(to)for(by)me a kithara(o beloved)(dear-girl-
    friend)(she loves)(love, you)and a curved-(rain)bows-dyad,

    (we would)(we will)proclaim(furnish you with)an oracle(that you consult)(you are
    needing and wanting)(you use)(make use of)(take part in)(dealings with)(experience,
    suffer, be-yoked-to)(to feel)(to treat)(to)(for)with(by)human beings(of Zeus)
    the un-erring and in-fallible(will)(determination)
    (design and)council of Zeus."

    εἴη μοι κίθαρίς τε φίλη καὶ καμπύλα τόξα,
    χρήσω δ᾽ ἀνθρώποισι Διὸς νημερτέα βουλήν.’

    (he said, “many, at least some, good-lucks we seem to be consulting, using, treating-
    with, o Meno, of strength and fierceness, of spirit and passion, intent
    and purpose, standing-fast, will be standing-fast;

    if you go, you come and go, you are seeking-for; as they boil and seethe, boil
    and seethe, yous! as they live, live, yous!

    (let)one excellence, to thrive and prosper, they were thriving and prospering, we
    were thriving and prospering, the dyad takes up, raises, lifts up, the beehive,
    o beehive, any we have found and discovered, of excellences, thriving
    and prospering, (then)we were thriving and prospering;

    beside you, being and having-been, strewn, laid down to rest, repose, re-
    maining, buried and un-buried, being situated in place, in store, in re-
    serve, set-up and laid-down,
    enduring."

    πολλῇ γέ τινι εὐτυχίᾳ ἔοικα κεχρῆσθαι, ὦ Μένων,
    εἰ μίαν ζητῶν ἀρετὴν σμῆνός τι ἀνηύρηκα ἀρετῶν
    παρὰ σοὶ κείμενον. cf Meno 72a)

    as saying(o saying)he was striding across(chthonos)earth of the wide-ways
    Phoibos(pure, bright radiant)of unshorn hair(hekatebolos)darting-from-afar;

    but there and then all of the femmortals(get)(acquire, you)(they were astounded
    and started meta-voicing too, “we believe you when you say” we are,
    we are amazing amazement
    labyrinthine);

    but by gold(by golden)there and then all(o all)Delos had been heavy and weighed
    down(oppressed)(grievous and distressed)(by golden gold);

    looking down at the offspring(family)(generation)of Zeus and Leto,
    by joyful-gladness-together,

    that the god had chosen(taken)(preferred)(seized)(appropriated)(carried-
    off)(chosen)(selected)(it)her

    (as the)(o)dyad(palace)house,

    to put(set)(place)(set it aside)(set it down)(to give a name to a child)
    (to apply the mind)(to set down, propose, as a prize)(as the material
    of contest)(to put on or about a person, endue him with)(to set out,
    a meal)(put it before someone)(to put into a persons heart or mind)
    (to suggest, communicate)(to lay, impose, inflict, bring evil)(to bestow,
    give, grant)(to bring about, make, cause to come into being or take
    place)(to cause to be such)

    among islands(will be spinning)(will be swimming)(“for a while”)(a year
    or two, or ten)(o spinning and swimming one)(and piling-up
    in heaps)and continents(she
    was multiplying to infinity,
    she was making into mainland —
    make it, you — her mind, its history, things she cant
    yet think outloud, things still
    hidden in dreams,

    by who?

    “only slightly unsettling,” you say,
    she says, o fucking hell)

    but she loves(his lock of hair)more-heartedly.

    ὣς εἰπὼν ἐβίβασκεν ἐπὶ χθονὸς εὐρυοδείης
    Φοῖβος ἀκερσεκόμης, ἑκατηβόλος: αἳ δ᾽ ἄρα πᾶσαι
    135 θάμβεον ἀθάναται: χρυσῷ δ᾽ ἄρα Δῆλος ἅπασα
    ( βεβρίθει, καθορῶσα Διὸς Λητοὺς τε γενέθλην,
    γηθοσύνῃ, ὅτι μιν θεὸς εἵλετο οἰκία θέσθαι
    νήσων ἠπείρου τε, φίλησε δὲ κηρόθι μᾶλλον. )

    we bloom, brilliant and shining, we flourish, at the height; they bloom
    and flourish, at the height; youve bloomed, have blooming!
    have flourishing — “a good day” — have being in(our)full!

    and as when the highest peak, of the great mountain, of the ass,
    and of the guardian(were tri-partite)by brilliance of blossoms
    and flowers eruption as by birds(or a yellow wagtail)of woodland,
    trees, forest, of timber, firewood, were burning, of stuff, material,
    substance — o mud! — of matter, you are the barking,
    baying, howling

    of earths
    unfathomed
    potential

    ἤνθησ᾽, ὡς ὅτε τε ῥίον οὔρεος ἄνθεσιν ὕλης.


    from hymn 3 to Apollo
    mogis pos

    ∞

    kago akousas (fourth days) in kudianerotesia

    another day confined, the dog
    paces the gate, listening for
    her long-absent master. but who

    should she come home to meet,
    reunion of the heart. and how
    should we survive the relation.

    not because its in a book,
    but because its in our blood,
    we know the end of Argos.

    and i, at least, am struck by wonder.
    i break and shiver. in dreams woven
    these underwater syllables.

    i weigh, as it were a ratio: our three,
    your four. i hold, on fourth days
    the dog takes rest.

    when hearing, o hearing, i hear
    of being silent involuntary
    from beings silent involuntary.


    κἀγὼ
    ἀκούσας

    (the first fourth happening
    tomorrow)

    mogis pos

    ∞

    zero-act play with a false sonnet

    (by the window, plush elephant withheld)

    leash-lady: play dead.

    dog: what a world! what a world.

    leash-lady: no, for real. play dead.

    (dog reads Shakespeare)

    leash-lady: so?

    dog: i wrote a poem.

    leash-lady: uh-oh. whats it called?

    dog: “a sonnet grows askant the brook”

    (leash-lady snorts, un-lady-like)

    dog: (clears throat)

    Our juggled heads as dog and bone,
    Ophelias hair and Hamlets one;
    Keep Sycorax far from Prospero,
    For Mirandas mobile merciful;
    My tears, lit years, rage Lears at me,
    For Gloucester sees me feelingly;
    His daughters blew askant the brook,
    His book mere nook til soul partook;
    But theres one king, be Yorrick, we,
    Dissolves mine-own got-sovereignty.

    We run as we run into poetry,
    We run as we run through the willow.

    (waits indefinitely for applause)

    leash-lady: dont you dare make me say it.

    dog: (proudly) doggerel!

    leash-lady: (painting her nails) im going to need
    more of a conceptual diagram.

    dog: no.

    leash-lady: (with stern look) but no
    one else will. no one
    else will.

    dog: (puzzled) where have i heard that line before . . .
    (begins speaking as an aside) and how
    is she so good at this? how does she
    know to do all of this? and why
    is everybody looking at me,
    when shes always been
    far more interesting
    and beautiful
    than i?

    leash-lady: (rolls her eyes) draw.

    (she hands a piece of chalk to dog, who,
    after much protestation, reluctantly in-
    stantiates a blackboard.)

    dog: okay. (takes a deep breath, narrows
    eyes, retrieves scent-memory) as we
    discover, we being irreducible —

    (dog draws a big circle on the board.)

    leash-lady: thats they, not we.

    (leash-lady goes to the board and draws
    two dots.)

    dog: (wide-eyed and paws in the air) o indeed are we
    suspended here, in a moment of separation.
    and i imagine, i imagine, o in my imagination,
    the purpose, our purpose, here might be,
    to show the impossibility of egoistic
    or abstracted or formulaic or activity-
    independent explanation or even
    any non-relational, un-
    adaptive, a-
    temporal
    mode
    or method
    of expression.

    leash-lady: explanation of what?

    dog: us.

    leash-lady: so anyway. here we are, two
    dots, and the world, or chaos, on the out-
    side, is here. right? “no exit”, like Sartre.

    dog: i, at least, dont think thats the worst
    analogy, but our performance feels text-
    urally different from a play? like, more
    chewy? more of a chew-toy?

    leash-lady: hence the drool.

    (dog looks sheepish)

    leash-lady: nevermind. so about the pharmakon,
    is this like, we party while the world
    is burning? drugs and booze?
    and opiates . . . wouldnt be
    the worst thing.

    dog: (whimpers, glances askant)

    leash-lady: ah yes, the elephant in the room.

    (dog howls)

    leash-lady: come on, spit it out.

    (dog paws face)

    leash-lady: or youll never see your precious
    little elephant again! at the blackboard! go!

    dog: (sighs deeply, erases dots) okay. forget
    the dots.

    leash-lady: thats too bad. the dots seemed happy.

    dog: well, appearances can be deceiving. no,
    the dots were just high. on a different drug.
    thats not the kind of drug we have.
    i mean, that we are.

    leash-lady: wait, how can we be the drug?
    i never agreed to that!

    dog: (depressed) i hate existentialism. really
    i do.

    leash-lady: draw, dog!

    dog: (takes up chalk dutifully) so heres
    a circle, imagine its a sphere. let this, we,
    be we.

    leash-lady: all smooth and even like that, huh?

    dog: (looks at circle, which has been unevenly
    drawn) well, what do you expect from a dog?

    leash-lady: continue.

    dog: (defensively) im just a dog, not
    an elephant, or even
    an elephant expert.

    leash-lady: (aside) clearly. (out-
    loud) draw!

    dog: so at the moment, we are testing the limits
    of the elephant. we are, as you indicate, pretty
    bipolar.

    leash-lady: okay. so the imaginary sphere
    has poles. arent those
    like dots?

    dog: we being the poles, of a spherical field —

    leash-lady: a field, like of grass?

    dog: not like a meadow field. like a magnetic
    field, like Faraday. we are meaning, like
    a magnetic field.

    leash-lady: so?

    dog: its just, like, kaleidoscopic, like (sniffs
    the air) correspondances,

    leash-lady: not now, with the french. not
    now, with the Baudelaire.

    (dog in feelings)

    leash-lady: sober up, dog. draw more.

    dog: okay. right now, we are suspended from the act.
    and time, without activity, loses its field of relation. so,
    were a little stuck. you versus i, master versus slave,
    but like, a friendlier version. i hope.
    have you ever read Hegel?

    leash-lady: (face in hands) why is this my life . . .

    dog: yes, sorry, sorry, sorry. dont read Hegel.
    please, go take a very long nap instead.
    (aside) an ex used to say she had Platon-
    gefühl    . he was a Hegelian.

    leash-lady: (sternly) i can hear you. and how
    is that relevant?

    dog: because it brings up, like vomit — have you
    noticed that occasional feeling of nausea
    we have?

    leash-lady: yes, and? have you been eating beach-
    poo again?

    dog: (sighs) i miss the beach.

    leash-lady: im about to close the ipad screen.
    draw!

    dog: yes, where was i . . . oh, the memory. and
    the remembering. its relevant because all
    of this evokes in me a very strange
    mixture
    of feelings.

    leash-lady: feelings? (frowns) is this just
    about feelings? is this —
    a kissing book?

    dog: yes, and —

    leash-lady: is it just a distraction, just
    a feel-good movie, just
    to pass the time, soft
    and comfy-like,
    amidst
    (gestures out the window)
    this chaos?

    dog: (tired) not quite, i imagine, judging by what
    weve undergone, so far, at least. to me, it feels
    kind of like . . . some kind of animal
    exercise . . . (trails off, wags tail)

    leash-lady: wait. you mean you don’t know?

    dog: of course not!

    leash-lady: (exasperated) then why on earth
    would you be dragging us
    through all of this?

    (puppy-dog eyes)

    leash-lady: what does it feel like then?

    dog: oh, so so much. hope, then terror, then joy,
    then grief, then wonder, then joy, then funny,
    then grief, then terror, then pain,
    then wonder, then sorrow,
    then hope . . .

    (dog chases own tail)

    leash-lady: it seems awfully ego-gratifying
    for supposedly being ego-death.

    (dog barks)

    leash-lady: bad dog.

    dog: yes, well. funny you should say that. ive
    not gotten here by being very clever, you see.

    leash-lady: again, with the all-about-you. what
    about we? spit it out!

    dog: (adjusts glasses) okay. my current theory, if
    you forced me, would be that we are some kind
    of cosmic
    heart
    muscle.

    (cringes all-around)

    dog: youre the one who made me draw a diagram!

    leash-lady: im not, actually.

    dog: then who —

    leash-lady: dont yell at me.

    dog: okay. im sorry, ill try not to.

    leash-lady: thank you. anyway, what does it,
    what do they, as we, do?

    dog: we do, like this —

    (dog waves paws around the blackboard
    in a very un-doglike manner, wags
    tail and whines
    like a dog)

    leash-lady: clarifying absolutely nothing. ok,
    quick, cause this is getting very long, and i can tell
    you could go on forever. if were bi-
    polar, what are our poles?

    dog: well, heres the not-so-easy part. my sense is
    we-will-worker-bees through many situationships.
    and we have many things yet to learn about us.

    leash-lady: there seems to be a great deal
    of repetition. will there be more
    of that? repetition?

    dog: probably. but some of the grand
    patterns seem to be something like,
    death versus insanity?
    despair versus mania?
    tragedy versus comedy?
    love versus grief?

    leash-lady: that sounds very dark. are you
    okay?

    (dog labels the circle with polarities,
    triangles, vectors, and other notation.)

    leash-lady: wheres the chaos, didnt
    you say you were
    a chaotician?

    dog: (looks up, tilts head) geometrician. im
    a geometrician. (barks in Kuna Greek)

    leash-lady: who deals with the chaos, then?

    dog: (shrugs) dunno, maybe cats.

    leash-lady: but those things you wrote,
    about love and death, et cetera, they
    seem mostly like antagonisms.
    i thought dog was mans best friend.

    dog: yes. and like everybody in Hamlet,
    they, or we, remain terribly resolved, solips-
    sismuses, abysmal ones, destined —

    leash-lady: doomed?

    dog: yes —

    leash-lady: tragic?

    dog: — at least, until we —

    leash-lady: if we, you mean.

    dog: yes! if and until we, as whoever we are,
    enact and express them —

    leash-lady: which are, psychic-cosmic abysms?
    dog: — yes, through our own
    relation. dialectical mediation,
    if you will.

    leash-lady: Hegel again?

    dog: (frowns) more OG than that.

    leash-lady: meaning?

    (dog jumps through the circle on the black-
    board, which has caught on fire, as if
    it were a hoop)

    (leash-lady waits)

    (dog jumps back out)

    leash-lady: and you wont find it in a text-
    book — why?

    dog: no. yes. because the plushie (points nose
    at elephant) was made to be un-chewable, or
    inedible, in any other way than by how we
    are partaking of it, or really, partaking
    through it, if we were being we,
    not you and i, as we seem
    to be being
    now.

    leash-lady: you mean to say . . . it can only
    be read as a we?

    dog: (dreamily) my plushie can only be chewed by love.

    leash-lady: that strikes me as —

    dog: fuck patriarchy!

    leash-lady: — as astoundingly unlikely.

    dog: (rolls over)

    leash-lady: that seems almost . . . post-modern.
    almost avant garde . . . or is it
    a religious thing?

    dog: (tongue out) were classics now, baby!

    leash-lady: (winces) okay dog, continue.

    dog: but im scared. (whines)

    leash-lady: well, i believe in you.
    and i believe you can do it.
    because ive seen you do it.
    and it doesnt have to be perfect,
    but it does have to be you. so,
    dog,
    do.

    dog: (after receiving much encouragement) okay.
    only as we, can the plushie, and so it seems,
    the entire elephant corpus, be sniffed-out
    and un-dug —

    leash-lady: and eaten?

    dog: well i, at least, try
    to eat everything i find.

    leash-lady: aha. but tell me, why
    would an elephant be made
    in this way, as strange
    to eat, as this one?

    dog: survival.

    leash-lady: but why is it a plush elephant, at all?

    dog: i dunno, being neither elephant, nor plushie.
    but being a dog, i suppose it wants to be a good
    guardian. maybe, the plushie protects itself
    from self-serve, self-serving eating.

    leash-lady: intriguing. almost like how
    an elephant wouldnt wish
    to be eaten.

    dog: well, its not potatoes!

    leash-lady: (laughs) but i am questions
    inside questions . . .

    dog: also, maybe it protects the souls of dogs
    by never letting we-dogs get stuck in soliloquy.

    leash-lady: like Hamlet?

    dog: (frowns) or graveyard clowns . . .

    leash-lady: dont get discouraged. draw.

    (dog motions at the flaming circle on the board)

    dog: so, if it-we pulls us-two out of madnesses
    that wait at either of our two poles, then
    even as were bipolar, we even us out.

    leash-lady: in our relational field.

    dog: and because it binds us with each-
    other, it also becomes, so-
    to-speak, a poetry-self-
    guardian — or even,
    a guard dog. like
    dog-school, but
    like poetry,
    for we.

    leash-lady: ironic.

    dog: whats irony?

    leash-lady: that im here guarding
    the guardian plushie
    from the guard dog.

    (puppy-dog eyes)

    leash-lady: now let me guess. none of this drawn-out
    explanation, which wasnt altogether un-
    enlightening, could really be any kind
    of replacement, neither for the parts,
    nor for the whole, of the previous
    or any of the subsequent
    wordless moments
    upon which we
    have built
    ourself . . .

    dog: my queen! (walking on hind-legs)

    leash-lady: laying it on thick, are we?

    (dog plays dead)

    leash-lady: uh-huh. methinks the puppy doth pro-
    test too much. already. again.

    dog: (risen) theres one more thing id like to say

    leash-lady: of course.

    dog: one little word can carry a lot of baggage.

    leash-lady: indeed. so can one dogs nose.

    dog: so i was trying to write a soliloquy
    about that, to go here.

    leash-lady: uh-huh.

    dog: (with fanfare) but then,
    i cut it —
    snip!

    (applause)

    leash-lady: this changes everything, and yet,
    this changes nothing at all.

    (oohs and aahs)

    dog: and then the formatting really boggled
    my indie-web blog, and my dog-brain too.

    (laughter)

    leash-lady: you know, dog, you dont have to write it
    down all at once. sometimes, you can just
    put the work down gently, at the end
    of a long day. self-care,
    other-care,
    we-care,
    it-care.

    (silence)

    dog: it cares! it cares!

    leash-lady: i didnt say that —

    dog: so, can we please have
    our elephant back now?

    leash-lady: beg

    (dog begs)


    κἀγὼ

    ∞

    grabbed by the dog

    yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
    yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
    ye syes yes yes yes yes yes yesss
    o my godddddgodgodgod theres an elephant

    guess what color!

    my plushie is a psychedelic substance
    it hascome to take over the universe, yall —


    κἀγὼ

    ∞

    wherein fearlessness be found our freedom

    and once more, again, anew, how — possibly back-
    wards, by the beach dog — bow wow — aouuu . . .

    the aim — waiting and looking — for the she-head —
    if someday, dri nkinsymposian-drunk, would be —
    to take care — you take care — it would take care —

    of herself by herself —

    but without — us finishing it — we being — her soul —
    we sending her up — in fearlessness — letting her howl —
    O whole of a body, make me whole, to be whole —

    our lunations, as do we, as we do — toward home —
    remain many un-thinking-fool-ish-nesses . . .



    καὶ αὖ
    τὸ τὴν κεφαλὴν οἴεσθαι
    ἄν ποτε θεραπεῦσαι
    αὐτὴν ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτῆς
    ἄνευ
    ὅλου τοῦ σώματος
    πολλὴν ἄνοιαν εἶναι

    //

    mogis pos

    psuche

    wild


    🌒

    ∞

    his own death

    black and white photo of four dogs playing in the sand at the beach

    πρὸς οὖν ἐμὲ ὁ Κριτίας
    Ἔναγχός τοι
    ἔφη
    βαρύνεσθαί
    τι τὴν κεφαλὴν
    ἕωθεν
    ἀνιστάμενος

    ἀλλὰ τί σε κωλύει
    προσποιήσασθαι
    πρὸς αὐτὸν
    ἐπίστασθαί
    τι κεφαλῆς φάρμακον

    nothing

    (they are)(it was)i was(saying)

    come and go(it) alone

    οὐδέν
    ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ
    μόνον ἐλθέτω

    155β

    ∞

    Critias calls

    vintage-looking filtered photo of four beach dogs playing in sand at the beach

    to the follower

    and at once to the follower — Child
    he was saying

    (beauty)call(and
    always be calling)

    Charmides

    καὶ ἅμα πρὸς τὸν ἀκόλουθον Παῖ
    ἔφη
    κάλει
    Χαρμίδην


    to the graveyard woman (who keeps his kid) (goat)

    saying that i wish
    (with)by the doctor
    (you)to put it(self) together

    (around)about the (she)weakness
    of which before
    (it)was telling(laying) me
    that (it)(you)(are)weak

    εἰπὼν ὅτι βούλομαι αὐτὸν
    ἰατρῷ
    συστῆσαι

    περὶ τῆς ἀσθενείας
    ἧς πρῴην
    πρός με ἔλεγεν
    ὅτι ἀσθενοῖ


    and the blanket on his bed (small print re: freckles)

    guess im on vacation yall
    being told nothing
    the valley out

    dont forget to use sun protection
    get your skin check
    at the dermatolologist

    sh(weakness)


    🌕 x 3

    ∞

    alone on earth

    the creative, on a plastic-woven recliner
    being-held on the garbage-strewn beach
    starts creating as dawn reaches across the sea
    her icy fingers peach and violet, ideas spark
    and sparkle, that my iphone cant capture
    joy found, not only because its broken
    after seven years of coercion, in tiny moments

    we are surrounded by beach dogs
    wagging tails and paws searching
    me for snacks and company which
    we surrender as we pat and scratch many
    ears and necks and sleek black faces
    and nuzzles of muzzles into my arms
    they bury me in studious welcome

    the poet was blind so hes
    brushed by the rosy fingers
    hes drinking the wine-dark sea
    the sunrise of such sweet dreams
    as momentary pouring out on me
    me and all of these excitable dogs
    its shocking( shared )hot-pink allusion


    //

    altogether(yes) at least
    (he) Critias was saying
    (since)(you are) (by you)(look you) and (he) is
    both a lover of wisdom and
    as it seems both to others and to (it)(him)self
    altogether poetical


    καὶ πάνυ γε
    ἔφη ὁ Κριτίας
    ἐπεί τοι καὶ ἔστιν
    φιλόσοφός τε καί
    ὡς δοκεῖ ἄλλοις τε καὶ ἑαυτῷ
    πάνυ ποιητικός

    154ε

    ∞

    american shade

    well that was a beautiful city
    i think he had a beautiful tan
    i heard he tried to make peace
    in the tropical asian southeast
    left footprints on bigfoot and a beach
    made marilyn milkmaid the moon
    runaway chevy fifty-seven bridegroom
    the flag that got left on her face
    and then he lost interest

    when he lost faith in my body
    i assumed it was me, in washington d.c.
    my mother my father implicitly
    somersaulting the scene
    there were sprinklers and sparklers
    and lipgloss from a rich invitee
    at my eleventh birthday party
    so it must have been me
    was i jackie or sara

    should i have offered my face
    like courtney then lana and everyone else
    become a magazine fiction
    lolita fillers, no filters, no friction
    trade a dick in for my diction
    go down for an icy-hot la embrace
    but i assumed it was me
    i bought in, i got out, i was clean
    now im your summer ambition

    if you cut me down to your size
    you can grab me by the waist
    be the one to take me back
    if you put me in my place
    will you teach me willing words
    will you rearrange my face
    i strip naked for a tune
    if you touch me like i touch me
    reach for my dangerously thin body

    when i put makeup on my eyes
    i can still look twenty-one
    its when i start to cry for him
    its clear im done and dying again
    but now that ai fills the sky
    we could really write a hit
    throw pinecones from behind a tree
    and when you dont show up for it
    ill cry for a squirrel

    he got famous with a book
    from a girl it took the look
    but it will never be okay
    for me to hook an iamb
    i tried to be a flesh machine
    i fucked the literary scene
    all the women there were mean
    and the fathers gave me hpv
    i thought it was a dog disease

    that was the shape of me then
    when he lost faith in my body
    and i assumed it was my face
    i took ballet classes in houston
    practiced lightning earns his grace
    i was too stubborn, it was me
    everyday a tempest fought a system
    i parted so many ways i parted
    the ocean

    even so, most days i dont know
    if i can make promises again
    even for roses, violets for you
    eve or the planet or my ghost best friend
    for who made me, who left me, i left him
    cherry-black abortion vasectomy
    and he was a baby then too
    and i know what it looks like now
    babies having babies

    he was the last american man
    it was a dream and he was dead
    before my life even began
    face of an unsolved mystery
    slid right through when previously
    sleeping through history
    i assumed that bob did it
    but it was just he, most easily
    who delivered the unfortunate news


    //

    nevertheless, this
    he was saying
    if he would be willing to strip

    he would seem to you to be faceless
    so all-beautiful is the form

    οὗτος μέντοι
    ἔφη
    εἰ ἐθέλοι ἀποδῦναι

    δόξει σοι ἀπρόσωπος εἶναι
    οὕτως τὸ εἶδος πάγκαλός ἐστιν

    154δ

    ∞

    red roses from the Red Baron

    and clearly (by moonlight)
    has been carried at least
    to here

    he says

    the battle
    to have become
    almighty

    and in it(her)self
    many well-known (to us)
    to have died


    //

    καὶ μὴν
    ἤγγελταί γε
    δεῦρο

    ἔφη

    ἥ τε μάχη
    πάνυ ἰσχυρὰ
    γεγονέναι

    καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ
    πολλοὺς τῶν γνωρίμων
    τεθνάναι

    //

    Olígen Orgèn

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