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posted by [personal profile] selkie at 10:53am on 20/05/2004

Ten lines down. Umptillion to go. The chief problem with Greco-Roman names is that they take up half the line.

I'm telling you, the classical world needed more heroes named Sid, Tom and Bob. That way, by the time the epithet's attached -- witness 'anax argon Agamemnon', etc -- the line isn't wasted and gone. I mean, 'polytropos Bob' [hides from other tricksy persons who might pound me for that one] wastes 50% less syllabic goodness.

But Fitzgerald? He's writing in iambic pentameter. Muhahahaha. Keeping one eye trained on the meter comes easier to me than, well, walking upright.

So that's something.

And I think the icon, by [livejournal.com profile] cleolinda , is going to be the official icon of the Crazy Project. Hee!

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