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Michial Farmer, Jay Eldred, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer talk about some of Sappho’s poems about art and beauty:

• “Abanthis, Please Pick Up Your Lyre” (Voigt 22);
• “By Giving Me Creations of Their Own” (Voigt 57);
• “What Farm Girl” (Voigt 57);
• “But I Love Extravagance” (Voigt 118);
• “And This Next Charming Ditty” (Voigt 160).

SHOW NOTES

• Our translations of Sappho: Aaron Poochigian (2009), and Philip Freeman (2016).
• Sappho is the other dude in Sweet Home Alabama.
• Jay may have thought about Terry Pratchett’s Soul Music.
• “Desire moves like a dress” sounds like a Melissa Etheridge song.
• Jay might have seen Michael Richards’s Tar Baby vs. St. Sebastian.
• Michial misquotes Harold Bloom misquoting Oscar Wilde:
  

  Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.

• The only Greek Michial speaks is kalamata.
• Our theme music was provided by Blue Dot Sessions.

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