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“The child is there. I am three or four years old. It is late summer. It is spring. I am six. I am eight. The child is always the same age. We speak to one another, but in a tongue of our own devising. My brother, who is a year older, does not see him, even when he moves close between us.”
This is an imagined life of the Roman poet Ovid, who was banished by Emperor Augustus to a village unlike anything he’d known.
“I am describing a state of mind, no place. I am in exile here. The village calle ...more
“The child is there. I am three or four years old. It is late summer. It is spring. I am six. I am eight. The child is always the same age. We speak to one another, but in a tongue of our own devising. My brother, who is a year older, does not see him, even when he moves close between us.”
This is an imagined life of the Roman poet Ovid, who was banished by Emperor Augustus to a village unlike anything he’d known.
“I am describing a state of mind, no place. I am in exile here. The village calle ...more
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