Blog post Ovid’s Metamorphosis #001/111: “Invocation”

What this project is about.  

This one is from Book 1.

How long it took to read this (aloud): 28 seconds

What it’s “about”: Ovid setting the scene, asking ‘God’ to help him out

Words I didn’t know: none

Quotable quotes: 

“Now I shall tell of things that change”

How it lands to my eco-sensibility: Heraclitus and that river

Obvious allusions, ways it was used (that I am aware of already) : Nowt

What I know I didn’t ‘get’: Nowt

To my knowledge, who’s used it why/how (RACC): Nowt

Further research questions: Nowt

Anything else: Nowt

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Blog post Ovid’s Metamorphosis #002/111: “Chaos and Creation” – “Then careless things took shape”

What this project is about.  

This one is from Book 1.

How long it took to read this (aloud): 5mins 36seconds

What it’s “about”: The Before Times (before time)

Words I didn’t know: Nowt

Quotable quotes: 

“When God, whichever God he was, created/The universe we know” – You just know that Ovid’s sardonic little mouth is gonna get him in trouble….

“Yet world was not complete/It lacked a creature that had hints of heaven/And hopes to rule the earth.”  (The hairless murder apes should get over themselves)

“The new creation gazed into blue sky; Then careless things took shape…”

How it lands to my eco-sensibility: Idk – compare and contrast with the two versions of the creation in Genesis? Typically anthropocentric (obvs) 

Obvious allusions, ways it was used (that I am aware of already) : Nowt

What I know I didn’t ‘get’: Nowt

To my knowledge, who’s used it why/how (RACC): Nowt

Further research questions: Is there an Ur-text Ovid and the Genesis folks were cribbing from? Did Milton crib from Ovid for Paradise Lost at all?

Anything else: 

That word careless!

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness”  Chapter 9 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Paul Kelly song Careless from 1989’s So Much Water So Close to Home