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Subject: The ant's a centaur in his dragon world
From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:33:48 -0400
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Dan Pearlman recently pulled up from his files an exchange we had here last
year, regarding this line from Canto 81:

    The ant's a centaur in his dragon world...

In that exchange, I took issue with Michael Coyle's characterization of the
man-beast as "lascivious" and "randy".  I described the centaur as
"prodigious". In re-reading Women of Trachis, I've found some lines that
shed some more light on Pound's exemplum; here, Herakles is speaking:

... and those unsociable bardots, half man and half horse,
the whole gang of them all together
ARROGANT, LAWLESS, SURPASSING STRONG...

[ emphasis mine]


Tim Romano

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