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The Muses

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Muse as Mistress

I think once you start sort of trying to be a cardboard cut out, you had it. There's nothing pure and gentle about Shelley or Byron. And I'm only a Byron and muse. With a word Plato admit that she was actually selected by the muse. The muse as mistress in modern times. Well, you do get it in the ancient world because- Do you mean for example Frany who poses for a surprise? No, no. In Latin love energy, when you get the mistress as muse and the proportion actually says, I don't need a muse. My god is my muse. Yes. But what I do find interesting about that is that now the muse is regarded as

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