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19 Jan

'The poem leads us, but no person takes us by the hand. It is not like Virgil or Homer, whose poems start with invocations to a muse.'

Michael Schmidt on the Epic of Gilgamesh.

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17 Jan

'The Bible is all but silent on yellow, as it is on most colours.'

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