[lit-ideas] Re: Auerbach on Mimesis
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 12:16:53 +0900
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
> Old Plotinus
> He thought it a minus
> Whatever is less than one.
> All else is emanation,
> Like light from the sun.
>
Explain, noble poet, why
"All else is emanation" sounds better to you than
"All else emanating"
The latter sounds better to my ear.
John
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