D. J. Reddall
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I write because my time is limited and my imagination is not.
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“So, what’s situational irony, guys?” They always look terrified or enraged when I ask them direct questions about something they’re supposed to have read. The terror I understand: they hate being “put on the spot,” as though that ought never to happen to anyone. The world should be so safe and comfortable that no one ought to ask you a serious question and expect you to muster a serious answer. You know, actual evidence that you have a thought about the matter and can clearly articulate that thought, at a minimum. If you can do so artfully, that’s ambrosia.
By D. J. Reddall2 years ago in Poets
Aching to Know
“‘Come here,’ they sang, ‘renowned Ulysses, honour to the Achaean name, and listen to our voices. No one ever sailed past us without staying to hear the enchanting sweetness of our song—and he who listens will go on his way not only charmed, but wiser, for we know all the ills that the gods laid upon the Argives and Trojans before Troy, and can tell you everything that is going to happen over the whole world.’" --Homer, The Odyssey, Book XII, Translated by Samuel Butler, 1900
By D. J. Reddall2 years ago in Poets
