Monday, September 07, 2020
Singing to Myself
Agathias, Histories 3.1.5 (tr. Joseph D. Frendo):
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Even if some should find my writings thoroughly shoddy and superficial and indeed the typical products of an undisciplined mind, yet I may still succeed in pleasing myself, just as people with no ear for music enjoy their own singing.Related posts:
εἰ γάρ τῳ καὶ δόξειεν εἶναι τάμὰ νόθα γε ὡς ἀληθῶς καὶ ἀνεμιαῖα, καὶ οἶα ψυχῆς ἐς πλεῖστα μεριζομένης κυήματα, ἀλλ' ἐμαυτὸν γοῦν ἴσως ἀρέσκοιμι ἂν, καθάπερ τῶν ᾀδόντων οἱ ἀμουσότατοι.
- Dishonest and Lying Narcissists
- Few, One, or None
- Write the Book You Want To Read
- An Audience of One
- Tolkien on Writing for Oneself
- To Write for Oneself
- Soliloquies
- Mihi et Musis
- Says I to Myself
