Fruit
VIII.xiii. ( sh ) eepy ( comfort ) eroes ( of fluff )
ADEIMANTOS: ( yawns fast asleep ) this feast feels good . .
strawberry ice creamy . .🍦. . 🍓 . . 🐑
SOKRATES: and( indeed )( to-by-for )in-every-way( it must be ),
( she-he-it-being-binding )( it-he-she-being-need )
( she-he-it eats )( you are eaten )( you will be the eating ),
καὶ πάντῃ ἔδει
ADEIMANTOS: baaa ( uncountedly ) ( and o, ) comfort ( we )-
is( are ) your hand in the dark ( my fantasy
has come alive ) ( in-every-way ) ( if we ) already here
( are feasting upon me ) and this dream ( our thought,
why ) would we ever get out of bed ( ? )
( an ancient question ) ( sprinkles! )
SOKRATES: ( surely )or( why? )( hey! )
( else )( as )( to-by-for )( we- )being( a )clown-fraud( pretentious-
boaster-charlatan-vagabond )( a quack! ),
ADEIMANTOS: ( not at all ) ( we uffy eep ),
SOKRATES: not at all( to-by-for )( none-she )to have a share in( to go-
among )( to allow )( to let-go )( to go-after )
true( unconcealed )philosophy( wisdom-love ) ( ! )
ἢ ἀλαζόνι ὄντι μηδαμῇ μετεῖναι φιλοσοφίας ἀληθινῆς.
ADEIMANTOS: ( ignore him ) and indeed we could
be Nobodys second coming ( his suntanned curves )
( his calloused fingers ) slightly touching mine ( to fluff
my pillowed fears ) if we were sleepy together
( and minding our own business ) ( quiet life )
its on a farm ( dont ask the neighbors ),
MEDEIS: and( indeed )( he )moaning( wailing, moaning,
lamenting, with tears )( me ), o epic-winged-word-songs
( he )was speaking-through( to-by-for )me,
καί μ᾽ ὀλοφυρόμενος ἔπεα πτερόεντα προσηύδα:
ADEIMANTOS: ( mmm . . . )
SOKRATES: for( o saying, gathering, choosing, laying-down ),
( we are )( they-we-are )( he( we )is( being ) )( we say )in this way,
saying( gathering, choosing, laying-down )( in this way )
( the saying, gathering, choosing, laying-down ),
ἦν γὰρ οὕτω λεγόμενον.
ADEIMANTOS: ( gasp! )
HERAKLES: o sprung-from-Zeus son-of-Laertes, poly-
mechanos(of many-devices, arts, resources, crafts, means,
machines)Odysseus,
διογενὲς Λαερτιάδη, πολυμήχαν᾽ Ὀδυσσεῦ,
ADEIMANTOS: ( O poly-ecstasy — )
o Herakles, o Sokrates, o Odysseus, , ,
( o all our kings ) ( we want them all ) ( theyre here )
you whisper sweet secrets in my ear ( its bliss )
( its chocolate hazelnut with burnt caramel drizzle )
( and how many more heroes can we fit )
in the same bed? ( in the same mouth ) hm?
( whisper me the answer . . . ),
SOKRATES: therefore( indeed )( isnt )this one( o one )
exceedingly( vehemently-violently )so,
οὐκοῦν ἓν μὲν τοῦτο σφόδρα οὕτω
ADEIMANTOS: you animal! —
SOKRATES: contrary( to the )opinion( belief )( seeming-they-seemed )
( to-by-for )the now-seemings( opinions-beliefs )around( about )him( self )?
παρὰ δόξαν τοῖς νῦν δοκουμένοις περὶ αὐτοῦ;
ADEIMANTOS: ( so much so, we cant restrain ourself! — )
HERAKLES: ah! miserable( cowardly, craven, sorry, poor,
worthless )man,
ADEIMANTOS: ( o yes, o no, )
HERAKLES: or( indeed )( we are )( he was saying ),
ADEIMANTOS: ( o no, o why, , , )
HERAKLES: and( indeed, are )you leading( guiding )some evil
( bad-ill-ugly )destiny( fate-doom )
( doom )
( doom )
( doom . . . )
ἆ δείλ᾽, ἦ τινὰ καὶ σὺ κακὸν μόρον ἡγηλάζεις,
ADEIMANTOS: ( no roosters crow ) ( all roosters peace )
( a wall of birdsong approaches from the east )
( stretching ) ( waking ) ( oh my ) ( and what a night )
( a dream of some lavish delight, and then )
( a dream ) of something not quite right ( o well ),
a morning thought we filtered out ( o honey-dawn,
o hearing you ) and worry leaves my body in a blink,
( sprinkles? )
SAILORS: and( indeed )very( dyad-under-handed-holdingly ),
καὶ μάλα,
SOKRATES: comfort ( we )is( are ) your hand in the dark
( gently holding mine ) still warm from sleep,
SAILORS: (he)was saying,
ἔφη.
SOKRATES: ( so that ) this morning ( with your hand )
tightly holding mine ( we may ) ( as heroes ) ( wake ),
HERAKLES: which( roundly )( we )i( being )were enduring
( suffering, holding-fast )by( from-under )( the )rays-
beams-sheens( of the )sun,
ὅν περ ἐγὼν ὀχέεσκον ὑπ᾽ αὐγὰς ἠελίοιο.
ADEIMANTOS: ( and o the burn, to know him face-to-face.
and its that hard to put things down today;
these nights spent wrestling legends in my dreams,
the words, the thought, the memes, keep twisting things
and turning round, and running me like trains,
and nobodys word came down ) just to find myself
writing it now ( under pressure of the sun, who said )
as heroes words dont settle for the page.
( maybe thats why ) we try to write
and nothing comes out,
SOKRATES: ( then is it not )therefore —
( o dyad-god )( he binds )( bind, you )( god-needed-bound )
( he needs )( need, you )( the dyad-god )( indeed )must( be ) —
measuredly
( we )will( would )speak-in-defense( speak on behalf )( ? )
ἆρ᾽ οὖν δὴ οὐ μετρίως ἀπολογησόμεθα
ADEIMANTOS: then measuredly we speak ( as nothing ) ( but free )
but fluff ( as clouds of sweetness ) ephemeral stuff
for you to read anyway ( dissolving on my tongue )
until youve had enough ( of melting snow ) of me,
SOKRATES: that he, at least
( who is )actually( we-beingly )( a )learning-lover
( would be )having-by-nature( origin-growth )
( that he )would compete( contend-struggle )
toward( against )the( we- )being,
ὅτι πρὸς τὸ ὂν πεφυκὼς εἴη ἁμιλλᾶσθαι ὅ γε ὄντως φιλομαθής,
ADEIMANTOS: ( that we would say ) to bring it on ( and ) never enough.
( and then we would reply again ) ( pink ) bursts
of cotton candy ( in the shape of men,
of extraordinary lyric virility,
to wrestle you ) before you fall asleep
( to haunt your dreams and drag you back ) ( musically )
( to prove the strength of our reality )
uth flickers
//
from hymn to Apollo
Republic VI
Odyssey XI.613-626
VIII.xi. wellspring-gather( ring of hymns )
ADEIMANTOS: ( o self ) ( are we-he tame? )
( having patched-up yesterdays verses . . . )
( or are we thoroughly depraved? ) ( he grins )
( at our lavender looking-glass ) ( heart-breaker )
we break apart ( to tell himself ) ( out loud )
( that being-we ) we want to hear all of them,
SOKRATES: ( those him-things )which you —
( o dyad-Zeus )( it was binding )( bind, you )
( Zeus-needed-bound )( it was in-need )( need, you )
( the dyad-Zeus)( indeed )must — say,
to gather( recount, pick up, choose, speak, tell, reckon )
( the )accusations( against )philosophy( wisdom-love ),
that thoroughly-depraved( are the ones )
most( of )going-and-coming to her,
οὓς δὴ σὺ φῂς
τὸν ἐγκαλοῦντα τῇ φιλοσοφίᾳ λέγειν
ὡς παμπόνηροι οἱ πλεῖστοι τῶν ἰόντων ἐπ᾽ αὐτήν,
ADEIMANTOS: ( but whatever your words
for me ) your ideas ( and twists and turns )
( amaze me ) ( and transpose me ) every night
( its always better with you here ) ( really ),
SOKRATES: but the( ones )most fitting( meet-suitable )
( are )useless( unprofitable-unserviceable ),
οἱ δὲ ἐπιεικέστατοι ἄχρηστοι,
ADEIMANTOS: ( we offer ourself a raspberry-pink rose )
( we hope such as nobody had noticed
our makeover ) ( and indeed ) we say and mean it
( when we ) gather myself ( to say ),
SOKRATES: and( indeed )( we )i( being )agree
( yield-to )with( the )true( -she-unconcealed- )you( to )speak,
καὶ ἐγὼ συνεχώρησα ἀληθῆ σε λέγειν.
ADEIMANTOS: ( wipes tear )
and every morning ( we bask
in ) the good ( and brave ) ( and indigo-violet ) ( sunlight ),
SOKRATES: for( hey! )( he says )( as )( in truth )( we are ),
ἦ γάρ;
ADEIMANTOS: ( and ) indeed ( he says
the goddess brings the shade ) ( and )
the crazy ( man from two-thousand four-hundred-some-odd years ago )
( brings out ) the crazy ( love ),
HERA: and( indeed )now howsoever( we )i( being )would make
by art-skill-craft-cunning-device,
καὶ νῦν μέντοι ἐγὼ τεχνήσομαι,
ADEIMANTOS: ( as they sneak another banana peel
under my feet ) ( and yet ) ( from these
slipped lines we make ) tight knots
( to be seaworthy ) even the silly ones,
SAILOR: ( by the )ship( yes ),
ναί.
ADEIMANTOS: because youll never know
( how the final beastie boy ) ( with his beastie bow )
( or our little tramp ) ( will take shape ) over parts,
HERA: as my( o whole )child would( o )( to-by-for )( she-original )
( come-to-be )be born,
ὥς κε γένηται
παῖς ἐμός,
ADEIMANTOS: what will stick ( together )
( what falls apart ) ( or in the wake )
( what changes him around again )
unravelling ( our riiiptide ) ( as we go ),
SOKRATES: therefore havent( we )gone-through( completed )
( shot-through )( recounted )( reached )( arrived at )the cause
even( indeed )of( the )uselessness( unprofitable-unserviceableness )
of the fitting( meet-suitable )ones?
οὐκοῦν τῆς μὲν τῶν ἐπιεικῶν ἀχρηστίας τὴν αἰτίαν διεληλύθαμεν;
ADEIMANTOS: and that ( while
remaining ) out of sight
( of mortal men ),
HERA: he would self-distinguish among immortal gods,
ὅς κε θεοῖσι μεταπρέποι ἀθανάτοισιν,
ADEIMANTOS: ( o goddess, thank you for
your spoken confidence ) ( you fill us with pride )
( and indeed that ) isnt even why
( we keep on sailing ) in secret,
( or at least dont advertise ),
SAILORS: and( indeed )very( dyad-teen spirit ),
καὶ μάλα.
ADEIMANTOS: but hearing them ( the little mens )
( and spinning hymns ) ( under her protections )
from everyone ( whos blind to the invisible ),
( as he roams across the surface of her soul )
( digging up her soil and stirring up her storms ),
HERA: by shaming( disfiguring )( dishonoring )( defiling )
neither your sacred( shrine )bed,
nor mine of her( own )self,
οὔτε σὸν αἰσχύνασ᾽ ἱερὸν λέχος οὔτ᾽ ἐμὸν αὐτῆς.
ADEIMANTOS: ( with the high-stepping of his sweet summer child ),
( we keep her safe and luxuriantly savage )
( a fool ) ( yet somehow true ) ( a singing-through )
but you ( saw and knew her ) in the first place.
//
from hymn to Apollo
Republic VI
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.v. her crochet ( in our hair ) bathing-suit
ADEIMANTOS: o dear. why ( how ) does she
( she-being-she ) grow
such gloriously soft
and long and shining locks?
does the other ( we ) she yet know
how absolutely wonderful you are?
( winks ) ( at you )
SOKRATES: for, consider —
ADEIMANTOS: ( tacky
like a soda commercial
dr. pepper )
SOKRATES: (o will-thinking)
(the will-thinking)(of will-thinking)(itself),
ADEIMANTOS: o divine tresses, o handsome-
handed wool ( whom ) ( we would-will ),
SOKRATES: (perceive-by-eyes, by-mind, and apprehend,
take notice in thought, think, reflect, deem, presume,
ADEIMANTOS: what could we ( she ) do
with archive couture wool like that?
SOKRATES: think-out, conceive, purpose, intend,
be-minded, to mean)(consideration itself),
νόησον γὰρ
ADEIMANTOS: that would be her, when she
could concentrate, at least.
but ( endlessly ) hes in-
and-out and back
again ( off to the races
of white mustangs
of white dresses
of hope, she-
being a dangerous thing for me to have
leaning
) into
SOKRATES: (the)coming-into-being(o becoming)
(the becoming)(of becoming),
ADEIMANTOS: big bang, kiss kiss,
SOKRATES: (of being-born, being-
produced,
ADEIMANTOS: being a star!
SOKRATES: being-multiplied,
ADEIMANTOS: a galaxy?
her milky way c-candy bar-
t-t-tender,
SOKRATES: being-multiplied-yet-more,
ADEIMANTOS: with planets? Mercury
and Venus, wow,
SOKRATES: waxing and waning,
ADEIMANTOS: his being the moon,
SOKRATES: being-
elapsed,
ADEIMANTOS: not he! hmm,
his character arc,
SOKRATES: the happening-of-growth,
ADEIMANTOS: at last, his getting of his feast! whens its my turn!
SOKRATES: the taking-place,
ADEIMANTOS: his doin time,
SOKRATES: the coming-
to-pass,
ADEIMANTOS: his being a man,
SOKRATES: the pledges-given, oaths-taken, place-taking,
ADEIMANTOS: the gossip about him,
SOKRATES: the facts,
ADEIMANTOS: his wanting-being remembered,
SOKRATES: the past, the future, time to-have-passed,
ADEIMANTOS: his remembering-wanting being,
SOKRATES: the came-
to-pass, the came-to-be,
ADEIMANTOS: his progeny,
SOKRATES: the yet-to-come,
ADEIMANTOS: his well-begetting, well-begotten fame,
SOCRATES: and)of-this-sort,
τοιουτονὶ γενόμενον
ADEIMANTOS: until we-being-( my hand in
your hair )-doing-making-( her hand
in my hair )-go everywhere, in-
( and well-behaved )-around
her ( Oceans ) katalogue
of ships,
SOKRATES: whether around(about)many ships(boats)(schooners)(about schooner Adventuress)(her piece of my heart),
(and other schooners)(skiffs)(sloops)(brigantines)(clippers)(galleys)(barges)(junks)(dinghies)(trawlers)(pinkies)(coracles)(curragh)(riverboats)(skin boats)(canoes canoes canoes)(tankers)(cruise-ships)(booms)(zaruk)(catamaran)(trimaran)(punt)(sampan)(dhow)(lembi)(kubaea)(moneres)(phaseli)(picatos)(fuchuan)(shachuan)(zheng)(haichuan)(wupeng boat)(dragon boat)(lorcha)(zhiyuan)(mengchong)(aral boat)(pirogue)(curiara)(montaria)(uba)(igarite)(igarape canoe)(jangada)(peque-peque)(yate)(chata)(totora boat)(tula boat)(balsa)(qaya)(caballito de totora)(dalca)(wampo)(bongui)(tomako)(tepuke)(mon)(tavala)(tanga)(yagan canoe)(kawesqar canoe)(guato canoe)(ningher)(narangga canoe)(yuki)(yari)(warrigal canoe)(torres strait canoe)(nawi)(nardan)(tied-bark canoe)(stitched-bark canoe)(reed-bundle canoe)(bark raft)(onu)(kirkkovene)(soutuvene)(savolaisvene)(tervavene)(haapio)(ruuhi)(uisko)(kokka)(kalavene)(verkkovene)(saaristovene)(paijannevene)(jokivene)(purjevene)(ladoga boat)(pomor koch)(jalboot)(shasha)(odam)(strug)(lodja)(sajka)(pinasse)(baris)(solar barque)(khufu ship)(lagoon canoe)(niger canoe)(donkua)(ali poli)(kodoo)(gaal)(fante canoe)(ewe canoe)(ugbo)(oko)(kru canoe)(sierra leone canoe)(liberian canoe)(akuafo canoe)(canoes canoes canoes)(monoxyle)(gomon)(karbas)(baidarka)(tarada)(keleks)(mashoof)(guffa)(guzar)(qayiq)(kayik)(amudarya boat)(oxus boat)(tartane)(vectoriae)(corbitae)(actuariae)(naves longae)(naves onerariae)(naves lusoriae)(hippagoga)(lembus)(caique)(celox)(caravels)(carracks)(scaphas)(pristis)(wasen)(yamato-bune)(tarai-bune)(takase-bune)(higaki-kaisen)(sengokubune)(bezaisen)(kitamaebune)(atakebune)(sekibune)(kobaya)(kobune)(watasebune)(yakatabune)(sabani)(tenmasen)(holk)(gauloi)(kerkouroi)(hippoi)(myoparo)(cercurus)(galleons)(cogs)(longships)(triakontoroi)(pentekontoroi)(hemioliai)(trihemioliai)(drakkars)(knarrs)(byrthings)(birlinns)(dromons)(biremes)(triremes)(quadriremes)(quinqueremes)(sexiremes)(septiremes)(dekeres)(enneres)(octeres)(hepteres)(hexaremes)(penteres)(liburnae)(hanseon)(panokseon)(geobukseon)(choma-seon)(pyeongjeoseon)(gwanggo)(tongsin-seon)(xebec)(fluyt)(hoys)(yawls)(ketches)(cutters)(snekkja)(sloops-of-war)(skeid)(karfi)(brigs)(barques)(barks)(windjammers)(barquentine)(tugboats)(motorboats)(houseboats)(ferries)(flatboats)(keelboats)(gondolas)(bateaux)(yachts)(vaka)(va a)(waka)(wa a)(waka ama)(waka tiwai)(waka taua)(waka hourua)(mokihi)(va a alo)(va a-tele)(kalia)(alia)(tongiaki)(amatasi)(pahi)(tipaerui)(niu)(kiato)(langskip)(faering)(sixareen)(drua)(ndrua)(takia)(tuilakeba)(camakau)(bilibili)(masawa)(wa)(sakman)(baurua)(walap)(wa a kaulua)(wa a ama)(wa a ulu)(opu)(holua)(iqyax)(chinook canoe)(haida canoe)(canoes canoes canoes)(tlingit canoe)(tsimshian canoe)(salish canoe)(makah canoe)(nuu-chah-nulth canoe)(shovel-nose canoe)(birchbark canoe)(elm-bark canoe)(algonquin canoe)(anishinaabe canoe)(ojibwe canoe)(mi kmaq canoe)(wabanaki canoe)(haudenosaunee canoe)(djong)(bajak)(golek-golek)(mayang)(kletok)(prahu mayang)(lancang)(pencalang)(bedar)(tongkang)(pinisi)(catboats)(dories)(zodiacs)(jukung)(perahu)(sandeq)(padewakang)(paduwant)(kora-kora)(paledang)(pelang)(londe)(pangajava)(bangka)(paraw)(balangay)(baloto)(biray)(karakoa)(lanong)(vinta)(salisipan)(armadahan)(basnigan)(djenging)(cascos)(guilalo)(lepa-lepa)(proa)(falu)(te wa)(penjajap)(kolek)(sakayan)(salambaw)(talaka)(tumbang)(joangan)(parao)(kelulus)(kunlun bo)(knabat bogolu)(lakatoi)(teppa)(gulet)(sambuk)(ngalawa)(mtepe)(jahazi)(mashua)(lakana)(lakana outrigger)(lakan-tsambo)(lakana lehibe)(masikoro canoe)(boutre)(dau)(mtumbwi)(uwambo)(wavuvi)(shahoof)(bagqurah)(baghlah)(huri)(badan)(jalbah)(ghurab)(tarrad)(sanbuk)(ubri)(thalamegos)(kattumaram)(vallam)(uru)(masula)(padagu)(salangu)(oru)(paru)(yathra dhoni)(thoni)(padavu)(vattavada)(bhela)(battal)(kattu-vallam)(snake boat)(vahan)(machwa)(hodi)(dungi)(shikara)(dingi)(donga)(budgerow)(panshi)(balam)(pateli)(nauka)(kotia)(pattamar)(kosha)(datti)(dalla)(ark)(kayak)(umiak)(qajaq)(angyaq)(qayaq)(greenland kayak)(dugout canoes)(outrigger canoes)(bull boats)(tomol)(tule balsa)(tule canoe)(chumash plank canoe)(canoes canoes canoes)(heiltsuk canoe)(cayuco)(piragua)(barca)(txalupa)(chalupa)(taino canoe)(lucayan canoe)(carib canoe)(canoa)(feluccas)(dahabiya)(sandal)(markab)(zarouk)(ghayassa)(papyrus boat)(reed boat)(maadi boat)(kwakwaka wakw canoe) —
ADEIMANTOS: dont forget the Mimi!
SOKRATES: (the voyage of the Mimi)(wouldnt forget),
ADEIMANTOS: and how my(her)great-aunt took me(her)out
and off the bay, on the Rappahannock River,
near Stingray Point, in her brave and much littler
two-person sunfish, brightly across the water,
SOKRATES: (and many-jointed-rafts),
ADEIMANTOS: triples (we)is(being) best!
SOKRATES: (and many other kinds of boats
)(as temple-dwellings)(of youths)(swimming)(spinning)(piling-
up-in-heaps)(o ploughing-up)(the ploughing-up)(of ploughing-
up)(the wake)(it wakes)(the next)(of fallow-lands)(o will-to-be
of youth)(the will-to-being of the young)(of will-to-being of
the youth)(to change)(to renovate)(o change)(o renovation)( o,
o making-young-again)(the temple-dwelling)
(of temple-dwellings),
νόησον γὰρ τοιουτονὶ γενόμενον εἴτε πολλῶν νεῶν πέρι
ADEIMANTOS: as ( we-bringing ) with ( a gentle tug )-boat
back home,
SOKRATES: or(around)about(just)one, ( you
and she and me )
( we-one ),
πέρι εἴτε μιᾶς:
ADEIMANTOS: but (we-)he(-being) even ancienter
( not a new thought ) than the ancient mariner,
SOKRATES: (the)shipowner(to-by-for)(stature-magnitude-
build)even and(indeed)(to-by-for)(bodily-strength, force,
might, vigour, armies, confidence)(being)over
all those in the ship,
ADEIMANTOS: o seaworthy man, yet lost at sea,
SOKRATES: (o one who is unpracticed in the thing),
ADEIMANTOS: but what about she?
SOKRATES: (o river nymph),
ADEIMANTOS: your Venice bitch, your die-hard, your sh(weakness)?
SOKRATES: (she would flow)(she flows),
ADEIMANTOS: but what about me?
SOKRATES: (you would flow)(you flow)(you come
and go)(returning)(to-by-for the ship),
ADEIMANTOS: ( and had she been a Lizzy too )?
SOKRATES: ( she would swim )
ADEIMANTOS: who, she? or me?
SOKRATES: (she swims)(he swims)(it swims)(you swim)
(she would spin)(youd spin)(you spin)(for-by-to
the ship)(youre spun),
ADEIMANTOS: her spinning
her black bathing-suit up?
SOKRATES: (she would pile up)
(a funeral pyre)(she would heap and pile up)
(she heaps and piles up)
ADEIMANTOS: but were ( she-me at least ) still here,
SOKRATES: (next year, next year,
next year),
ADEIMANTOS: a darker paradise?
SOKRATES: (o one who is unpracticed in the thing),
ναύκληρον μεγέθει μὲν καὶ (488β) ῥώμῃ ὑπὲρ τοὺς ἐν τῇ νηὶ πάντας,
ADEIMANTOS: O future-facing-vessel-man,
another norman-fucking-rockwell???
( a resurfaced one ) just be okay,
just take my hand,
SOKRATES: but(the shipowner is)somewhat deaf,
ADEIMANTOS: ( yelling, we ) believe
that people can change,
can you see the flickering
in my ( phrenes ) heart?
SOKRATES: and(indeed)seeing itself-like(but)short(sighted),
and(indeed)recognizing(observing, aware)about
(around)other ship-things of-this-sort,
ὑπόκωφον δὲ καὶ ὁρῶντα ὡσαύτως βραχύ
τι καὶ γιγνώσκοντα περὶ ναυτικῶν ἕτερα τοιαῦτα,
ADEIMANTOS: poor guy, he needs some crazy gal
to help a brother out ( yelling, she ) maybe try
( imagination running wild )
to kiss the sky and whisper to Jesus?
SOKRATES: but the sailors(are)rising in rebellion
toward one-another around(about
kubernesis)steering,
τοὺς δὲ ναύτας στασιάζοντας πρὸς ἀλλήλους περὶ τῆς κυβερνήσεως,
ADEIMANTOS: ( for the things that they hold dear,
each to forget the thing he fears . . . )
but she wouldnt want him to drown again,
maybe ( we-being ) can save him ( so many
steps ahead ) from his ( we cant count ) mens?
SOKRATES: each supposing(it being-necessary)
(to be necessary)(to lack)(to bind)(himself)
to take the helm(o steering)(they were steering)
(the steering)(we were steering)(to steer)(the steering),
ἕκαστον οἰόμενον δεῖν κυβερνᾶν,
ADEIMANTOS: theys a lot of artsy-craftsy sailors . . .
but ( not like its real ) ( not like were really trying )
( not like they really exist ) ( watch me pretend ) ( not like
they really spill ) what (we)is(being) kubernesis, anyway?
SOKRATES: neither(learning ones)(ever yet)learning the(she)art(craft-skill),
nur having-holding to(show-forth)demonstrate(the)teacher of himself,
nar(to demonstrate a)time in which(he)was learning (her),
μήτε μαθόντα πώποτε τὴν τέχνην
μέτε ἔχοντα ἀποδεῖξαι διδάσκαλον ἑαυτοῦ
μηδὲ χρόνον ἐν ᾧ ἐμάνθανεν,
ADEIMANTOS: o calm ( her katabasis ) down,
take a deep breath, baby ( happily distracted
by that thought ) but did you neither
nur learn to spell?
nar pronoun?
SOKRATES: but toward-against those claiming
(its)not(even)to be taught(or learned),
πρὸς δὲ τούτοις φάσκοντας μηδὲ διδακτὸν εἶναι,
ADEIMANTOS: dont look too far,
( we-being ) right where you are,
( my hand in your hair ) ( her hand in my hair),
thats where (we)i(being) (we)am(are),
( triplets-at-she! ),
SOKRATES: but still and(indeed)the saying —
ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν λέγοντα
ADEIMANTOS: whoopsie-( snip! )-daisy,
SOKRATES: as(its)taught —
ADEIMANTOS: ( snip! ) yoo-hoo,
SOKRATES: (or learned) —
ὡς διδακτὸν
ADEIMANTOS: ( snip! ) did she get it right? ( again ),
SOKRATES: (theyre)ready to cut-into-pieces,
ἑτοίμους κατατέμνειν,
ADEIMANTOS: positively voodoo!
( and did we know exactly
how magical she was ),
and he ( being ) not me ( we-she ) . . .
SOKRATES: but(the)(standing-in-need —
ADEIMANTOS: ( snip! ) now its a ribbon,
SOKRATES: of)(binding —
ADEIMANTOS: ( snip! ) round my neck,
SOKRATES: fettering —
ADEIMANTOS: ( snip! ) and its cherry-colored,
SOKRATES: -tying)selves,
ADEIMANTOS: pink ( snip! ) to hold me to this wheel,
SOKRATES: (to-by-for)the shipowner —
ADEIMANTOS: ( snip! ) we(ive just been)being,
SOKRATES: always him —
ADEIMANTOS: baking ( snip, again! ) waiting on —
SOKRATES: himself,
ADEIMANTOS: nevertheless, having experience
of arts-and-crafts and stoves-hunting-doll-like-things,
SOKRATES: (would be)pouring-crowding —
ADEIMANTOS: or ( snip! ) a spirit hunter,
SOKRATES: around(himself) —
ADEIMANTOS: (we)i(being) ( strange, snip! ) a ghost,
SOKRATES: (the standing —
ADEIMANTOS: greedy he ( yoo-hoo, snip! ) be greedy she,
SOKRATES: in-need —
ADEIMANTOS: it ( snip! ) it doesnt mean
SOKRATES: -of)(binding-fettering —
ADEIMANTOS: (we)i(being) ( snip! ) am feeling nothing,
SOKRATES: -tying-him —
ADEIMANTOS: put it ( snip! tattoo ) on my ass,
SOKRATES: sel-
ADEIMANTOS: go find her pattern then,
SOKRATES: -el-
ADEIMANTOS: sold him on ravelry,
SOKRATES: ve-
αὐτοὺς δὲ ( αὐτῷ ἀεὶ τῷ (488ξ) ναυκλήρῳ ) περικεχύσθαι δεομένους
ADEIMANTOS: these ( we-being ) red ( snip! ) ( rosy-
fingered ) ( bejeweled-mani ) ( peri-pedi-cure,
her bloody shoes ) ( para-purple-
crimson ) ( hollow-
ship ) bottoms,
( she huffs
a cat ),
SOKRATES: ( swiftly-yelling ) selves!)(too many!)(to-
by-for him!)(selves! selves! selves!) —
ADEIMANTOS: (but then)-whoopsie-( no tan-lines summer,
and then )-daisy-( he had to go weave in )-yoo-hoo-
( the loose )-we imagine you do-( ends )!
( outro, playing ukulele ) —
SOKRATES: ( head in hands,
she-being-sirens? ),
ADEIMANTOS: ( color me bloooooo
blooooooo oooooo
blooo oooo oo
bloo oo
ooo
o )
//
from Republic VI
NFR by LDR
etc
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
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 (4/9)
thus(she)spake; but rejoice(and hail)Delos, and exchanging
and replying(o replying)(o returning-braiding)she was(amoebeing . . .
o holy-mogis-pos-will-be-mother, the whole fog-)voicing-through;
ὣς φάτο: χαῖρε δὲ Δῆλος, ἀμειβομένη δὲ προσηύδα:
Leto, most-glorious daughter of great Koios(you would mark)(you
would cry)(indeed-methinks-i-finally-do — by the dog, shes weaving-
all-nighters, for two — through four, or more — yet, still —
Λητοῖ, κυδίστη θύγατερ μεγάλου Κοίοιο,
)gladly-welcomed, i, at least, would receive(i would bring
to light)your offspring(seed)(generation)(birth)(they were, i am
bringing forth, to bring forth)from-afar the(HEKATOS)lord;
for horribly(dreadful stories)true(o truthful one)(i)(truthful)am bad-
wailing-(war-death-harpy)-sounding(to)(for)by men; and thus,
(we)honored-all-around(we)
would i become.
ἀσπασίη κεν ἐγώ γε γονὴν ἑκάτοιο ἄνακτος
δεξαίμην: αἰνῶς γὰρ ἐτήτυμόν εἰμι δυσηχὴς
ἀνδράσιν: ὧδε δέ κεν περιτιμήεσσα γενοίμην.
but this(word-song)(i)tremble, o Leto, (o this)word-song, nor will(i)
conceal(this word-song)(from)you(who are concealed(in this));
for(overly)(will be twanged)they say, some(hubristic)Apollo(overly)
reckless, uncaring, foolish, ruinous and ungovernable(like
too many, too eager suitors)(overly)(will
be twanged)will be,
and loudly-bigly-will-willfuly-hold-political-sway amongst immortals
and(indeed)for mortals(who)liable-to-death(know neither ships,
with their date-palm-bellies-swelling-fat-purple-pink, nor
the balancing of scales — Athenai, represent —
)upon spelt-giving land.
ἀλλὰ τόδε τρομέω, Λητοῖ, ἔπος, οὐδέ σε κεύσω:
λίην γάρ τινά φασιν ἀτάσθαλον Ἀπόλλωνα
ἔσσεσθαι, μέγα δὲ πρυτανευσέμεν ἀθανάτοισι
καὶ θνητοῖσι βροτοῖσιν ἐπὶ ζείδωρον ἄρουραν.
for those, then and there, horribly(i, Penelope-testing, do)fear,
both through(against)phren(tummy-heart-centered-wits-waiting)
and against(through)thumos(breath-spirit-savage-tasting-heart —
as if I don’t remember clearly (as 6 + 3) the last time —
and one year later (that makes 4) —
and with that fucking oar —
how you left us,
before,
again,
)lest whenever the first time he would see(youd be seen, by sheen
of metal)(by ships-timber-tree)light(o daylight)(fire-in-his-eyes-
bright)(a way out)(delight, deliverance, victory, glory)(the dark-
ring)(if somewhere he still lives)(he sees his other one)(around
a nipple)(areola)(black from Hades, unseen)(by the hole)of the sun,
τῷ ῥ᾽ αἰνῶς δείδοικα κατὰ φρένα καὶ κατὰ θυμόν,
μή, ὁπότ᾽ ἂν τὸ πρῶτον ἴδῃ φάος ἠελίοιο,
and dishonoring(you dishonor)(her, again)
the island(as before, will be swimming
and spinning and piling-
up-unwoven string,
in heaps —
o MUSE, sing me the woman
who was ever allowed
to count, OUTLOUD —
)since(you approach the dyad-word-song, are you)really(or)
(i was surely, he said)hard-rocky-grounded(home)(i)am —
by feet(by husbanding)(id over-)turn(and twisting)down(catastrophe)
against(trampling-on, ruining)he would thrust(nail-head, youd
be thrusted)(by thrusting)into the salty-grey sea —
νῆσον ἀτιμήσας, ἐπεὶ ἦ κραναήπεδός εἰμι,
ποσσὶ καταστρέψας ὤσῃ ἁλὸς ἐν πελάγεσσιν,
and now, there(he is)(they are)(he comes and goes)(and come
and go, he says, to me, in the imperative, of)my own self —
(on the one hand)the great(swollen)wave(o flood)(my pregnancy)
(down)against(through)my head(face)(skull)in crowds(aplenty)
(enough)always, it would wash(dash) — (surge) — over(my sanity) —
(on the other hand)he will arrive on(me)the other earth,
who would please(youd be pleased, youd take pleasure, by)him, (me)
to be made(prepared and performed-as)the temple(ship-like)dwelling
and hallowed-wooded(with tree-like markings)groves(of green) —
ἔνθ᾽ ἐμὲ μὲν μέγα κῦμα κατὰ κρατὸς ἅλις αἰεὶ
κλύσσει: ὃ δ᾽ ἄλλην γαῖαν ἀφίξεται, ἥ κεν ἅδῃ οἱ,
τεύξασθαι νηόν τε καὶ ἄλσεα δενδρήεντα:
o(his)polypodes(slime-suckered, skin-(g)ripping things)in my-own-self!
(so protean, he would throw-up)lurking-places(cavities)(lairs)(of a cave-
grave)(the pores of sponges)(nostrils)(recesses in my brain-
bone)and murky seals(o dark seals)(by
the slickening-sea-dog . . .
πουλύποδες δ᾽ ἐν ἐμοὶ θαλάμας φῶκαί τε μέλαιναι
)they will make houses(palaces)(dyad-dwellings)(unburied)uncared-for,
(sisters-)in-lack(ing bedding, spider-webbings-wedding)(just like
you left Argos, of the patient heart, but)of people(d audience,
people-responsibilities, people-needs, left
sisters-in-stones —
οἰκία ποιήσονται ἀκηδέα, χήτεϊ λαῶν.
from hymn 3 to Apollo
cf Homers Odyssey
4.404(seals of Proteus)
5.432(polypodon thalames)
16.35(spider web bedding)
16.86(hubris of suitors)
17.292(Argos talasiphronos)
20.207(ever if he still lives)
23.273(Pen and the sign)
Iliad 2.548(Athenianships)
etc.
fog of nine parts over twelve days (1/6)
by what means, then, will i sing you, in all ways being(o being)well-sung?
for everywhere by you, Phoibos, the laws(customs)(melodies)have been thrown — (cast)
(hurled)(struck)(tumbled)(let fall)of the song, across
both the calf(maiden)-nourishing mainland and the islands;
πῶς τ᾽ ἄρ σ᾽ ὑμνήσω πάντως εὔυμνον ἐόντα;
πάντη γάρ τοι, Φοῖβε, νόμοι βεβλήατ᾽ ἀοιδῆς,
ἠμὲν ἀν᾽ ἤπειρον πορτιτρόφον ἠδ᾽ ἀνὰ νήσους:
but all the lookout-peaks(chosen by you, i)delighted you and the sharply-projecting ridges
of the lofty mountains(will be awakening you)and the rivers flowing toward the sea
and the steep banks(o)having(bending)(giving-way)(reclining)(sloping)
(resting)into the brine and the harbors of the sea.
πᾶσαι δὲ σκοπιαί τοι ἅδον καὶ πρώονες ἄκροι
ὑψηλῶν ὀρέων ποταμοί θ᾽ ἅλαδε προρέοντες
ἀκταί τ᾽ εἰς ἅλα κεκλιμέναι λιμένες τε θαλάσσης.
as(really)(or)(it said)(was it i)Leto gave birth(give birth, you)to you first, o joy
for mortals, leaning(sloping)(wandering)(straying)(lain-
down)against mount Kynthos into the rugged island,
into flow-surrounded Delos?
but on either side the dark wave(o pregnancy)(swollen)(the surge)(the flood)
was coming forth onto the dry(barren)land by shrill-blowing winds;
from there, letting loose and away, you lord over all the deathbound.
ἦ ὥς σε πρῶτον Λητὼ τέκε, χάρμα βροτοῖσι,
κλινθεῖσα πρὸς Κύνθου ὄρος κραναῇ ἐνὶ νήσῳ,
Δήλῳ ἐν ἀμφιρύτῃ; ἑκάτερθε δὲ κῦμα κελαινὸν
ἐξῄει χέρσονδε λιγυπνοίοις ἀνέμοισιν,
ἔνθεν ἀπορνύμενος πᾶσι θνητοῖσιν ἀνάσσεις.
as many as Krete holds(you are held, in the glass pumpkin)within herself,
and the people of Athens, and the island Aigina, and famous-for-her-ships
Euboia, and the Aigai, the Peiresiai and the coastal Peparethos,
and Thracian Athos and the highest mountain tops(o peaks)of Pelion,
and Thracian Samos of Ida and(o the shady hillsides of)the highlands,
ὅσσους Κρήτη τ᾽ ἐντὸς ἔχει καὶ δῆμος Ἀθηνῶν
νῆσός τ᾽ Αἰγίνη ναυσικλειτή τ᾽ Εὔβοια,
Αἰγαί, Πειρεσίαι τε καὶ ἀγχιάλη Πεπάρηθος
Θρηίκιός τ᾽ Ἀθόως καὶ Πηλίου ἄκρα κάρηνα
Θρηικίη τε Σάμος Ἴδης τ᾽ ὄρεα σκιόεντα,
and Skyros and Phokaia and(o)the sheer height of(papyrus-poetries)
Autokanes, of well-founded Imbros and fog-enveloped Lemnos,
and exceedingly-holy Lesbos, and the Aiolian seat of Makar,
and Chios, (she)who, among islands, is the most brilliant(fertile)(fruit-
ful)(unctuous)(shining)(sleek)(smooth)and anointed in the salty-sea, lies
outstretched(uncared for)(idle)(unburied)(or sleeping)(yet hope flickers),
Σκῦρος καὶ Φώκαια καὶ Αὐτοκάνης ὄρος αἰπύ,
Ἴμβρος τ᾽ εὐκτιμένη καὶ Λῆμνος ἀμιχθαλόεσσα
Λέσβος τ᾽ ἠγαθέη, Μάκαρος ἕδος Αἰολίωνος,
καὶ Χίος, ἣ νήσων λιπαρωτάτη εἰν ἁλὶ κεῖται,
and craggy Mimas and the highest mountain tops(o peaks)of Korykos
and moonlit-radiant Klaros and(o)the sheer height of(earth-destiny)Aisagees,
and watery-moist Samos and the steep mountains(o peaks)of Mykale,
and Miletos and Kos, the city of Meropes(mortal)human beings,
παιπαλόεις τε Μίμας καὶ Κωρύκου ἄκρα κάρηνα
καὶ Κλάρος αἰγλήεσσα καὶ Αἰσαγέης ὄρος αἰπὺ
καὶ Σάμος ὑδρηλὴ Μυκάλης τ᾽ αἰπεινὰ κάρηνα
Μίλητός τε Κόως τε, πόλις Μερόπων ἀνθρώπων,
and steeply-situated Knidos and wind-swept Karpathos,
Naxos and also Paros and Rhenaia, with her cliffs exposed,
and over and across all of it, suffering pangs of childbirth, Leto was coming-
arriving-befallen(befalling)by(Hekebolos)casting-from-afar,
whether any would be willing-found-dwelling for(by)
her child of earths.
καὶ Κνίδος αἰπεινὴ καὶ Κάρπαθος ἠνεμόεσσα
Νάξος τ᾽ ἠδὲ Πάρος Ῥήναιά τε πετρήεσσα,
τόσσον ἔπ᾽ ὠδίνουσα Ἑκηβόλον ἵκετο Λητώ,
εἴ τίς οἱ γαιέων υἱεῖ θέλοι οἰκία θέσθαι.
from hymn 3 to Apollo
🌖
fog of nine parts over twelve days (1/9)
(i)(from-afar)shall remember and in no way(o threshold,
o way)would (i) escape the notice of Apollo(hekatos)from-afar,
the one whom, when going and coming(o gods)(she would run)(shine,
gleam)(contemplate)through the house(build, you)(she builds)(i
build)of Zeus, the gods tremble(by trembling)(going and coming);
and there and then(i will snarl)(easy)(i will sprinkle water)they
spring up(by darting up)(eagerly)near-to the coming and going,
all(o all)from their seats, when(she)stretches(and strains)out
the shining(radiant)(glistening)(famous)(phaidrean)(rain)bows.
μνήσομαι οὐδὲ λάθωμαι Ἀπόλλωνος ἑκάτοιο,
ὅντε θεοὶ κατὰ δῶμα Διὸς τρομέουσιν ἰόντα:
καί ῥά τ᾽ ἀναΐσσουσιν ἐπὶ σχεδὸν ἐρχομένοιο
πάντες ἀφ᾽ ἑδράων, ὅτε φαίδιμα τόξα τιταίνει.
but Leto alone stays(stay, you)beside delights-in-the-thunderbolt Zeus,
and she there and then(the bow)(living)(o living)(they lived)(living)(life)
let loose(and released)and shut(and enclosed)the quiver and bow,
Λητὼ δ᾽ οἴη μίμνε παραὶ Διὶ τερπικεραύνῳ,
ἥ ῥα βιόν τ᾽ ἐχάλασσε καὶ ἐκλήισσε φαρέτρην,
and(she)taking them from the wowow shoulders by the hands(taking)
(rain)bows suspends(hangs)up(down)towards the pillar of its father
of the peg(phallus)of gold; but(she)seats him, into the(herb)throne,
(she)(leading)(fetching)(bringing)(carrying)(guiding)(commanding)
(drawing out)(and describing)(holding as an event)(and celebrating)
(weighing down a scale)(with a certain weight)and taking for herself.
καί οἱ ἀπ᾽ ἰφθίμων ὤμων χείρεσσιν ἑλοῦσα
τόξα κατεκρέμασε πρὸς κίονα πατρὸς ἑοῖο
πασσάλου ἐκ χρυσέου: τὸν δ᾽ ἐς θρόνον εἷσεν ἄγουσα.
by(it)then the father gives(offers)(grants)nectar(by)the vessel of gold
showing(manifesting)the beloved child; and then the other daimones
thereupon sit down; and the mistress-lady Leto rejoices,
because(she)gave birth to the(rain)bow-bearing and(mighty)steadfast child.
τῷ δ᾽ ἄρα νέκταρ ἔδωκε πατὴρ δέπαϊ χρυσείῳ
δεικνύμενος φίλον υἱόν: ἔπειτα δὲ δαίμονες ἄλλοι
ἔνθα καθίζουσιν: χαίρει δέ τε πότνια Λητώ,
οὕνεκα τοξοφόρον καὶ καρτερὸν υἱὸν ἔτικτε.
rejoice, O blessed Leto, since you gave birth to two glorious children,
Apollo the lord and Artemis of the pouring-forth-(poison?)-arrows,
the one in Ortygia, the other in rugged Delos, (o she)having(bending)(giving-
way)(reclining)(resting)toward the great mountain and Kynthian riverbank,
the most-nearly-like the palm tree(phoenix)(red-purple)(a sticky date),
on the flows of the river-fountain Inopoio.
χαῖρε, μάκαιρ᾽ ὦ Λητοῖ, ἐπεὶ τέκες ἀγλαὰ τέκνα,
Ἀπόλλωνά τ᾽ ἄνακτα καὶ Ἄρτεμιν ἰοχέαιραν,
τὴν μὲν ἐν Ὀρτυγίῃ, τὸν δὲ κραναῇ ἐνὶ Δήλῳ,
κεκλιμένη πρὸς μακρὸν ὄρος καὶ Κύνθιον ὄχθον,
ἀγχοτάτω φοίνικος, ἐπ᾽ Ἰνωποῖο ῥεέθροις.
from hymn 3 to Apollo
just fruit
here boy
here boy
its just fruit
this is what you want
dont be ashamed
dont turn it off
your daddys nearby
theres nothing to fear
nobody even
to break a law
why not come through
and come here for me
show me power
show me milk
show me honey
here boy
here boy
its just fruit
//
but what(why) not
(you) show-off the youth for me
(you) (beauty)call(ing) (him) here
for not even (if) somehow if yet
he was happening being younger
(would it be) shameful (if)
(they were)(he was)i was(saying)
for him(self) to dialogue for us
at least opposite you
being at once (his) (turn-on)trustee and cousin
ἀλλὰ τί οὐκ
ἐπέδειξάς μοι τὸν νεανίαν
καλέσας δεῦρο
οὐδὲ γὰρ ἄν που εἰ ἔτι
ἐτύγχανε νεώτερος ὤν
αἰσχρὸν ἂν
ἦν
αὐτῷ διαλέγεσθαι ἡμῖν
ἐναντίον γε σοῦ
ἐπιτρόπου τε ἅμα καὶ ἀνεψιοῦ ὄντος
155α
tendrils in a warm pumpkin patch
dancing is bondage in freedom
my feet belong (to you, to you)
my eyes belong (also to you)
so that they and i were (glutting ourselves)
having been struck out (of ourselves)
having been thrown into bewilderment
my feet belong (to you, to you)
my eyes belong (only to you)
my ears are the shape of secrets
when he was entering
//
οὕτως ἐκπεπληγμένοι τε καὶ τεθορυβημένοι ἦσαν
ἡνίκ᾽ εἰσῄει
//
changed “seemed” to
“appeared” for ephane
cakewalk wyrm
fully here, Scorpio on fire, desire
that leash, your name, the tether-flame to tie
me to it, body to my well, the tight-
rope pulling is a verdant death-rape game
of a gemstone-encrusted whether force
recoiling howl inside a leather word
inside the naked thing, and the wing will
be tipped, he will enter the gymnasium
a gnawing question, hour, what is a who
without the hollow, willing, who is the what
without a whip, feather, let my lip
suck it out, daddy, let my nerve drip
and swerving slip the girl awake, winner
enough to make her winter-tender bowl
sing, never his song enough, ever
the pelvis for a manifest parade
to lead a pussy through the willow, dance
me round the mountain, wind-out of a plum
prison, iamb virgin, i am vision
iamb-submission of a cakewalk wyrm
//
but (he) is
(i am) (they are) i say
who and of whom (or what)
ἔστιν δέ
ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ
τίς τε καὶ τοῦ
154α
witch piece cake
in skin prick, i fly across oceans
arrive on the lotus-letters island
of the long-lost highland kingdom
stir and spell a terrible journey
through holy wood by central castling.
to announce my flawless fingers
persuade his drawbridges lowered
which were guarded by a giantess
and cross over the lava moat.
with clean hair only do we enter
the dragon reception, a masque
of marbles clouds and berries.
here is where i will eat out
the remainder of my salad days
sweetly, sing the saffron rage of birds.
with which natural-born prince
whisper in the quartz crystal ball
an uncomplicated lover, yes —
of inexhaustible grief and faith
in these wettest, wildest dreams.
but it appears to me
indeed he
(himself) nearly
already (pleasures)
perhaps
to be
approaching —
//
tasty vs stinky
if the (un)father(ing) flew
a pulpy, creamy poem
to feather they were not
a man, what then would
i eat for dessert?
being care-
ful of the spikes —
and mind-
ful of the blast radius —
a durian
released by my small hands,
to share between my friends.
frozen, blended custard; topped
with darkness (chocolate) crackling.
//
Phaedrus: (as Lysias, cont.)
nor
for you wishing (boulomai)
to be unnoticed (lanthanein) by others
(is it) similarly (homoios)
powerful (dunatos)
// 234ξ
οὔτε σοὶ βουλομένῳ τοὺς ἄλλους λανθάνειν ὁμοίως δυνατόν
//
feet
a visit with the donkey of Rabi'a al-'Adawiya
if the world would like to hear how Rabi’a
gained courage or her strange immunity
to fear, for friendship, i would explain. yet,
a friend is not a purveyor of shallots; nor
pinned apples, by the donkey’s tale. her debt
of tears she brought with her most carefully.
this baggage carries me, her dogged ass;
my nag for recollection married with
my nap of opportunity. fresh dates
don’t pluck a prophet from the fetching tree.
a footfelt softness is velvet delivery
under her bending limb, and broken news
is armor. what teeming droplets, but by winter?
what is the desert, if not her country of birth?
what is her coin, if not the cake she gives
right back, the moment she has tasted worth.
//
Phaedrus: (as Lysias, cont.)
and not as many as
will enjoy the gain (apo-lauein)
of your season (hora)
but those who will give after (meta-didonai)
of their own goods (ton spheteron agathon)
to one born older (presbuteroi genomenoi)
// 234α
οὐδὲ ὅσοι τῆς σῆς ὥρας ἀπολαύσονται
ἀλλ᾽ οἵτινες πρεσβυτέρῳ γενομένῳ τῶν σφετέρων ἀγαθῶν μεταδώσουσιν
//
in this, changed “dense” to “rich”.
have also reworked the (tricky)
first few lines of the Lysias speech.
ngaji for beginners
toss your compost out the window here
and wake to find a garden of impassables.
the rainy season, barely holding on, nurses
refuse; i think the earth cant help itself.
of course i arrived on an airplane of garbage
along with other harbingers of the end
of the island. i remember motorbike rides
across the sawah during the pandemic,
when it was sinking in how forever i was
here; the tropical scene windswept and quiet,
the people returning to their villages
to farm; it felt as if everyone was home.
back then, we couldnt mampir yet
and i didnt know that if you let a chili grow
it can live for years; it can become a little caterpillar-
munched tree, studded with flaming-hot fruit.
our neighbors treat me like Princess Di.
it doesnt help that i am shy; when we try
to take a walk, we end up seated, with coffee,
small-talk and gossip peppered with serious
conversation; which is my husbands work.
he cultivates connection, setting down
our roots, as i behold, just stupefied
by the spongey texture of community.
and then, i watch out of the corner of
my eye; i fall asleep amidst rotations of rice
and peanuts, tomatoes blushing on the vine
with fields of corn and sugarcane, rows
of marigolds and magenta gomphrena,
patches of green mustard and frilly cabbage,
near densely-shaded thickets of coffee and cacao.
i would absorb the pace of those in steady
negotiation with the sky, and what it gives
the terraced land, absorbing what it can,
for what it gives us — and by my daily plate,
it gives me very, very much.
and too, i read an article about a strong El Niño,
and one about the AMOC shutting down,
and news of friends in Denpasar, their flooded
houses and kos kosans; and always stuck
in traffic, in service to dollars, rubles, yuan,
the concrete surface spreading ever closer.
the village priest asks to send his daughter
to me, so she can practice her English.
of course, i say, let her come, frozen inside
with something like a knot that i cant name.
so im old enough (for here) to be a grandmother
but all the children say i look like Elsa.
so i let them see me picking up plastic,
and in the dirt, on my hands and knees, digging
up peanuts. it used to be my daily task
to ask the young, what is justice?
these days i find my figure lined and lit
inquiring at the city of necessity, ex-
perimenting with my best friends hair — ngaji.
so how shall i explain this, and to whom?
//
Phaedrus: (as Lysias, cont.)
yet if it is necessary (chre)
to gratify (charizesthai) most
the ones most lacking (deomenoi)
it is also fitting (prosekein) for the others
to make well (eu poieein)
not the best ones (beltistos)
but the ones most at an impasse (a-porotatoi)
// 233δ
ἔτι δὲ εἰ χρὴ τοῖς δεομένοις μάλιστα χαρίζεσθαι
προσήκει καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις
μὴ τοὺς βελτίστους ἀλλὰ τοὺς ἀπορωτάτους εὖ ποιεῖν
Ophelia revisited
my grief remains for the flowers, the herbs,
the growth habits i learned to recognize,
the pungent smells of bruised leaves, and
a lake with which i had grown familiar. only
with hesitation do i crush a sprig of rosemary.
the plants and seasons here are different.
i try not to use Latinate species names, or
the determinacy of words to describe life, as
a guest. sometimes it seems inevitable, and
i contribute to the loss already underway.
nothing is more miraculous than a human
body. becoming container for the self-strange,
unbecoming as that may be, mine followed me
here, reiterating its lesson without the black-
clad metaphor: no entry gained by force, beyond
barest survival. and the last time you
came begging here; when her hand was offered
to mine in marriage, now as i was candlelit royalty
in a fortress built of aging apples; the last time i
invited forth the rampaging fourth wall, to cross
the threshold of my door, to hold the iffy
soliloquy of me; would be the last time for
it all. no other help to meet the human
who doesn’t make and keep a home to serve
the stranger, the migrant, the nameless refugee.
//
Phaedrus: (as Lysias, cont.)
primarily not
to present-being (pareimi)
pleasure (hedone)
(for you)
will i together-be (suneimi)
(with you)
attending (therapeuein)
but to lingering-doing (mellein)
help (opheleia)
to-be (esesthai)
by you
// 233β
πρῶτον μὲν οὐ τὴν παροῦσαν ἡδονὴν
θεραπεύων συνέσομαί
σοι
ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν μέλλουσαν ὠφελίαν ἔσεσθαι
//
photo from April 2019
stranger like desire
you will come
into the desert
to know me
you will touch me like a stranger
as many strokes
as many surfaces
as many names
as many hungry palms
as your servant can carry
so empty this
your lick across the burning sand
electricity of my thirst
//
Phaedrus: (as Lysias, cont.)
you will come (hekein)
into difference (diaphora)
with them
// 232δ
ἥξεις αὐτοῖς εἰς διαφοράν
//
red (palm) sugar
you will come
into the dessert
to taste them
you will eat fried plantains
ripened until soft and sweet
crunchy with red sugar
too hot for wasted time
i almost burn my tongue
flesh tender and yellow
greasy fingers with coconut
oil and sticky lips
but did you really
//
iced kepo
iced kepo is freshly-squeezed
orange juice with just-cracked
coconut water over ice
on a hot
day before the rain
comes
maybe the traffics religion is
theres something superficial
about s-e-x
//
(kepo also means gossip)
//
🌔
//
prayer for puasa
the hardest thing for my puasa
and i still struggle with it
is not the hunger — i have been made
perhaps too comfortable with hunger
but its the eating again
its my takjil classic impasse
its the opening of my daily fast
and it would break me every time
my very body would refuse
my hardened lips just wouldnt soften
my sharpened teeth just wouldnt chew
my strangled throat just wouldnt swallow
so sitting parched-mouth after sunset
before my three precious dates
how angrily would i demand the cause
my why and what am i myself against
my self surrendered in survival
my self surrendered in nourishment
my self surrendered to the sunless day
my self surrendered to the slow care of the moon
and surely there remain deeper hungers
and surely colder winters to come
but Lord — please let me not refuse
your mercy when the spring appears
//
lipsblum and parfum ooze
the cherries fell and placed their fingerprints
between my feet like small mouths of a month
of its here its a bloody wee well of a red whale
her fluke-petals strewn long the grey and white tile
and smudge of a moth in the blossoms to clear
but im always her hem and im on the sore brink
of love with the let-jet and inky-bruise style of it
like my pussy would write her own un-willing book
would underwear-stain me an avant-garde blotch
of enfant terrible for primordial brood
elsewhere wind-egg dramatic and lithe acrobatic
some brown-wise residuum to raging en rouge
sex-flowing battle and kiss-knowing cramp
my blew-brewing worm of verbage vole-damp
a crescendo howled in my bowling-ball clamp
and how you offered to switch off the lamp
so i wouldnt need to move at all
so i lie lust-fallow-unfastened at last for now
and i shower near the violet melati that you grow
with slugs softly tucked in a wet toilet paper roll
//
🌖
//
after
the easy way out
saucy
like a bruise
cherry
&c
& the maskmaker
who called lip balm that