The opening lines of "The Holy Office", a 1904 poem by James Joyce:
Myself unto myself will give
This name, Katharsis-Purgative.
I, who dishevelled ways forsook
To hold the poets’ grammar-book,
Bringing to tavern and to brothel
The mind of witty Aristotle,
Lest bards in the attempt should err
Must here be my interpreter:
Wherefore receive now from my lip
Peripatetic scholarship....
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Tonya Lailey
18 hours ago
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