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The Muses

In Our Time

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The Muse of Apollo

In the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century, Ficino does not treat the muses simply as allegories. He makes it absolutely clear that he thinks the nine muses represent the music made by the movements of the eight heavenly spheres. Do you see anything remaining of the word muse or the idea muse in the culture we have now? Absolutely, so an artist's muse now is much more passive. We've got the artist as the dominant creative force. But I'd like to just mention the word muse to muse upon. So if you're musing, you are letting your mind wander. And my worry is that current technology and current time poverty is going to reduce our ability to

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