tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post5035150625436388769..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: There is no other villageMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-68728405203376991112013-01-25T12:37:24.922-05:002013-01-25T12:37:24.922-05:00Drat! Just google "The City" and "C...Drat! Just google "The City" and "C. P. Cavafy."<br /><br />Yes, I think that's very true... And that wars we have always with us. Certain elements of life remain strong and terrible no matter how things change.<br /><br />I do think it's important that "Thaliad" has more of a link to the ancient epics rather than modern things called epics (like Pound's Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-28980153414466554962013-01-25T12:25:18.657-05:002013-01-25T12:25:18.657-05:00Sorry to say that link did not work - a problem wi...Sorry to say that link did not work - a problem with users.hol I think.<br /><br />Not sure if you followed my awkwardly written point about how your work is inspired by ancient stories, yet Thaliad seems to be about the future. Then I wondered if it could be set in the past such as in war times. Maybe times have not changed, there are always wars, only ever worse wars. And wars on the marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-73041310339178023422013-01-25T06:43:26.669-05:002013-01-25T06:43:26.669-05:00Oh, I think that I was more influenced by lively, ...Oh, I think that I was more influenced by lively, ancient epics than by anything modern, but here I was definitely influenced by a Cavafy poem... Shall leave a link later--have been up early, rousting my youngest to finish homework.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-28383813593341037892013-01-25T00:53:45.292-05:002013-01-25T00:53:45.292-05:00A searing passage that brought tears to my eyes......A searing passage that brought tears to my eyes....<br /><br />I plead ignorance of Cadafy but I always had a sense of some ancient connections throughout Thaliad. Interesting really, as you are writing of the future. Or the past such as during wars? ...hmmm.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.com