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#(I suspect o'brien knew this he strikes me as probably knowing his catullus at least)
lurking-latinist
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#anyway the aubrey-maturin kick is helping me with my dissertation I think
#because diana is 100% an elegiac puella. all of the things that she does are elegiac puella things
#right down to her name - equivalent of propertius' cynthia
#(I suspect o'brien knew this he strikes me as probably knowing his catullus at least)
#and it's interesting to see that such a character CAN exist in a linear narrative
#because cynthia and lesbia and the other elegiac beloveds really don't
#only in sort of vignettes. and that's part of what I'm writing about
#so that you can reconstruct these characteristics and behaviors into a character who works in a novel
#(even if she keeps disappearing to places and her letters cannot be put in order and there are five years in 1813)
#(she's not SUPER strictly bound by linear time but she *is* in a novel)
#dissertationblogging
#this possibly only makes sense if you are inside my brain
#sorry
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