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she is, then, there is neither before, nor after, nor in-between or multiple presences.
No Heidegger. No Derrida. No Deleuze-Guattari. untrace
unsnow
No Spence. Only Unaeneid. But. Virgil poetically dwells. Like Pound’s dwelling in the “shining of unmasked eyes” of “night’s sea,” “the green of the mountain pool” gulping the Dionysian cocktail while Dido and Aeneas’ [Plato’s and Medea’s] cavern is eerily un-silent, echo of echo: infini-tude.
Just as Spence denies Otis’ view that “Aeneas is morally superior to Dido,”37 Farron, harshly, blows out Aeneas’ love-pietas flame. He claims that Aeneas’ early Roman piety is just as weak as his passion for Dido. Farron’s long list of Aeneas’ pietas flaws 3⁄4 he wants to die in Troy; he delays his mission when Anchises refuses to leave and Creusa disappears; he feels envy for Andromache and Helenus in their Troyland; he ponders renouncing his fate when ships burn; he prefers to marvel at Daedalus’ carved doors and converse with Deiphobus than promptly see father in the glades of the blessed 3⁄4 is a snapshot, lacking Helios’ grand epic landscape. We know Aeneas has to blow out his emotional candle, stop carousing and settle for marble, but is he an ice cube and is his lack of drive unjustified?
37 Conclusion from pages 81 and 82 of Spence’s essay.
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