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Ep. 124: World in the Mind

Young Heretics

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Poetic Diction, a New Meaning to a Well Known Word

Words have a soul, says idmont maupasson. Most readers and even writers don't ask of them anything other than a meaning. Poetica notum si calida werbum redidret junctura is an instruction poem on how to write good poetry. The four letters r, u, i, m never lost the power to suggest movement. When horace uses the word ruin, it doesn't just mean like the broken pieces. It means an actual physical motion that eventually then becomes the more abstract or maphor metaphorical idea of ruin.

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