Thursday, May 22, 2008

Working through Horace Ode I.IX

Videa ut alta stet nive candidum
Soracte, nec iam sustineant onus
Silvae laborantes, geluque
Flumina constiterint acuto.

How do you write cold in music? How do you write warming up from cold by drinking? How do you write about a flight of fancy after drinking imagining some bar in some town where a woman is about to commit an infidelity?

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