More specifically concerning: contradictions
one of the oldest jokes in the book
9 June 2003, around 8.00.
Καππαδόκην ποτ’ ἔχιδνα κακὴ δάκεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὴ // κάτθανε γευσαμένη αἵματος ἰοβόλου. A nasty asp once bit a Cappadocian girl; one taste of her arrow-slinging blood, though, and the snake died. —Demodocus (III; 4 B. & D.) Epigrammata Graeca (ed. Page)
Citation (14)
1 December 2003, around 9.29.
the character of a historian.
pseudaphoristica (7)
11 January 2004, around 11.57.
periphrasis.
a backwards glance
13 April 2009, around 0.27.
The sight of a Greek head depresses many people, strikes an unliberated chord, reminds them of books in their grandmother’s parlor and of all they were supposed to learn and never did. —Joan Didion (‘The Getty’ in The White Album, p. 75)
chiaroscuro
20 June 2025, around 9.03.
Hinter unseren Gedanken, wahren und falschen, liegt immer wieder ein dunkler Grund, den wir erst später ins Licht ziehen und als einen Gedanken aussprechen können. Behind our thoughts, true and false, there is always to be found a dark background, which we are only later able to bring into the light and express as a […]