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Who Was Lucretius? with Thomas Nail

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How Do You Go From Indeterminate Matter to Rerum?

Lucretius often uses words that are references to weaving and folding. So he uses these as images to help us think about how you go from swerving matter to what he calls rerum. He's not just writing a treatise or an essay or a letter, or something like epicurus did. The poem is meant to work on you at a material performative level on and that mirrors the rest of the universe. And so there's this path story, and you don't want to veer off the path, or else you're not going o understand what's happening.

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