Tag: anonymity

• A piece of valiant dust?

  Who listens with their ears alone is deaf. I have to admit that I love aphorisms; there’s something about the brevity that commands attention; something about the message that is often multilayered: usually understood immediately, but occasionally appreciated only in retrospect. Aphorisms are by no means a recent invention; Hippocrates supposedly coined the word for…

  gozzter

  August 7, 2024

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  anonymity, aphorisms, minority opinions, universal truth, women's voices

• Whodunnit?

  Popular opinion to the contrary, it seems to me that there are advantages to cultural naïveté -well, literary innocence, at any rate. Being seduced into a novel or short story solely because of the reputation of the author, or the ravings of a friend, risks disappointment -if only in your friend’s lack of sophistication. And…

  gozzter

  November 11, 2020

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  anonymity, authors, classic Latin literature, classic literature, cultural naïveté, false news, graffiti, Homer, literature, Nero, Octavia, public media, Roman literature, social media, the Iliad, Tom Geue, University of St. Andrews in Scotland, vox dei, vox populi, writing