tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post7520685917558490500..comments2023-06-21T18:53:11.897+10:00Comments on Pykk: a mistress may presumably have an unlimited numberUmbagollahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-50166685133403948562016-02-03T15:03:47.669+11:002016-02-03T15:03:47.669+11:00Multiple Sweetnesses: the Glycera sugar bowl. Acco...Multiple Sweetnesses: the Glycera sugar bowl. According to one theory his Glycera is the same person as his Nemesis. "Of Nemesis my song must tell! | Without her name I make no verses well." This is what happens when you refer to people by nicknames. Two thousand years later, and nobody knows who they are. Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-29687957798733266842016-02-03T14:23:53.620+11:002016-02-03T14:23:53.620+11:00Scholarly or not, I enjoyed it. Scholarly or not, I enjoyed it. Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-7520618561989662162016-02-03T04:51:10.980+11:002016-02-03T04:51:10.980+11:00I suppose Tibullus could've had a number of mi...I suppose Tibullus could've had a number of mistresses, and called them all "Glycera" so he didn't have to keep their names straight. I'm reminded of that scene in <i>All That Jazz</i> where Roy Scheider's character says, "The blonde with the television show in Philadelphia? I remember that girl's name. I remember that girl's name because that girl meant something to me. The blonde with the television show...her name was <i>Sweetheart!</i>"scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-41856885061309276542016-02-01T15:37:41.370+11:002016-02-01T15:37:41.370+11:00no real scholarship there, tho; mostly rehash of ...no real scholarship there, tho; mostly rehash of wiki... tx anyhowMudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17194891656971454279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-43112573496439953562016-02-01T11:28:21.036+11:002016-02-01T11:28:21.036+11:00That's the post I should have written, right t...That's the post I should have written, right there.Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-84574708362170426762016-02-01T09:36:08.291+11:002016-02-01T09:36:08.291+11:00in the sixties i lived in chihuahua for a year; t...in the sixties i lived in chihuahua for a year; the indigenes warned me to stay away from ciudad juarez. very dangerous place. interesting about the wall image-behind the wall lies--what? bolano's fascination with a hidden agenda behind the political machinations of power perpetrated by unknown and unknowable forces... i haven't read haywood or bolano, just looked them up on wikipedia, but they sound mysterious and shadowy. "glicera" as a symbol for the arcane and subtle purposes of the femine mystique? richard savage was greatly admired by johnson, but regarded as creepy by most others; that part of haywood's life was obscure, blending into the impalpability of 2666(london burned in 1666 & it's the so called no. of the biblical beast). this sort of inchoate shadowy behind the scenes operation seems in some way connected to lovecraft et alii, even as remote as sir thomas browne(urn burial). anyway, fascinating and provocative stuff...Mudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17194891656971454279noreply@blogger.com